World Football Stadiums & Google Earth Guide

[Shiryu]

I'm surprissed this has not been posted yet!

I was doing some research this morning ( ), I found this group of people on the net, that are categorizing and adding the locations of all the football stadiums around the world on to a simple guide using Google Earth.

This is really fantastic, I was thinking of doing this, but I never though some one had already done it on such a large scale!

What it is, Google Earth allows for places to be "bookmarked" on the side bar, so you can zoom in onto famous places, or places you like, so they "bookmarked" every single mayor football stadium, divided that into Federetions>Countries>Leagues>Sub-Divisions, as a guide.


Right now they have 3570 stadiums included.


They also included second division stadiums, and so on down, all the way to minor divisions. Like other divisions for the MLS, MFL, Premiership.


Here's what you need to see it:
Google Earth:
http://earth.google.com/

And their Placemark file:
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/61497/an/0/page/6#61497

Just save the placemark file, and open it with Google Earth, or double click on it.



Examples:









Quite interesting, I can finally know exactly where the teams Guadalajara will be playing on Libertadores really are!


Edit:

Google Earth Community:
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php/Cat/0/C/20

 

[Filipower]

google earth is the best invention since the start of the millenium

 

[romero]

Nice find, thanks.

 

[Johnny_Big]

And can we see the game from Google Earth? That would be really fun! *sarcasm*

 

[jimorrizon]

Pretty cool....

 

[Bobby]

nice

 

[Hopeunited]

Nice, yet bad, because now Bobby can find the stadiums of all his favourite Zimbabwe and Rwandi teams.

 

[Johnny_Big]

Nice, yet bad, because now Bobby can find the stadiums of all his favourite Zimbabwe and Rwandi teams.

Invencible Eleven

 

[Hopeunited]

haha check out City of Manchester Stadium, it is still a construction site on the landscape.

 

[SlowSilver]

Great, thanks.

 

[Bobby]

Nice, yet bad, because now Bobby can find the stadiums of all his favourite Zimbabwe and Rwandi teams.

hey, those are quality sides.

 

[Seán D]

haha check out City of Manchester Stadium, it is still a construction site on the landscape.

you think thats bad, old trafford still has umbro on the seats

 

[Hopeunited]

Not fair, why is the landscape in Europe so detailed but that of Canada is not.

I was hoping to see my house on Google Earth.

 

[Seán D]

Not fair, why is the landscape in Europe so detailed but that of Canada is not.

I was hoping to see my house on Google Earth.

because it's the free version - i think it really only does capitals on it

 

[Bobby]

depends on which images they have, lots of governments take pictures.

canada probley just said **** it, they got ottawa, toronto, montral, edmonton, vancover, ect.

 

[Seán D]

it leaves out Croke Park where the Irish national team will be playing from 2007 while Lansdowne is being re-developed. If anyone is looking for it go to Tolka Park (Shelbourne FC) and it is the big stadium not to far from it.

 

[Shiryu]

I heard google is starting to update their satellite database.

So changes should come up soon.

 

[Yossarian]

I know a friend who happens to be a map enthusiast. The dude lives on the google maps page. It's his porn.....his only source for sexual gratification.


Honestly, I ain't kidding, man. I occasionly join in on his wild adventures and make some interesting suggestions on possible spots we can check out and stuff.

 

[Shiryu]

Yeah, like the people from http://googlesightseeing.com/ , and http://www.gearthblog.com/ , and http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/

That's all they do. :fool:

 

[Rochester Rhino]

I heard google is starting to update their satellite database.

So changes should come up soon.

this is pretty sweet, i tried doing this myself a while ago, with just the premier leage and la liga teams, and it was hard.

i noticed myself they have updated some of their database, hull cit has actual photos now. I didm't know their were portuguese teams that play in the middle of the atlantic.