Wahooooo! My first photo was published on Google Earth. You can see it at the coordinates
Longitude = -110.831811
Latitude = 32.26220499999998
So much precision is truly necessary for this image. It is a photo of the Catalinas while blanketed with soft white snow. The clouds helped to make a very dramatic image. Now my work will be immortalized!!!! Mwah-ha-ha-haaaa… or as long as Google Earth is around and nobody finds my photo offensive.
The process was fairly painless. I just set up an account with panaramio (http//www.panoramio.com) and uploaded my photos through the web interface. I began with one to see what the process was like. The coordinates are entered by just clicking on the location within Google Earth.
It took about a month for the photo to finally appear on Google Earth, which bummed me out a little since I wanted the instant gratification of being published. I could hardly believe I would have to wait 30 days to tell all my friends. The stated reason was that the photo was going to be reviewed and then place along with several others. Now that I know there will be about a one month wait for each photo, I will have to suck it up and visit my favorite zen site for 29.95 days after each upload.
Now, I am off to populate the virtual world with unparalleled imagery.