Google announced today that locations on Google Earth will now link to YouTube videos about those locations. The videos can be viewed in Flash without leaving Google Earth or by opening an external link to the YouTube site.
A quick scan of randomly-chosen Bangkok showed a healthy number of videos already locationally linked (right), including a videoes from tourists on a boat cruising down the Chao Phraya river and cruising the city by tuk tuk. It's largely content a visitor would want to see, with the occasional misfire: Unlikely you're interested in seeing the ultrasound of a fetus linked to its mother's Bangkok home.
This joins other Google Earth's other location-specific features such as locationally-linked photos, 3D buildings, and content from Discovery
Networks, National Geographic, and the UN, among others.
On Tuesday, Google Earth announced that Street View maps of Chicago, Portland, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Tucson and Philadelphia are now available. Go forth and procrastinate.
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