Google and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum today announced an online mapping initiative which is designed to highlight growing troubles in the Darfur region of Sudan via Google Earth. This initiative, dubbed Crisis in Darfur, is the first project in "the Museum’s Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative that will over time include information on potential genocides."
The Holocaust Museum, through Google Earth, is highlighting the Darfur situation via a Global Awareness layer in Google Earth starting today. Crisis in Darfur content comes from a range of sources, including the U.S. State Department, non-governmental organizations, the United Nations, individual photographer and the Museum. The high-resolution imagery in Google Earth enables users to zoom into the region to view more than 1,600 damaged and destroyed villages.
