Google Earth tool offers online preview of World Trade Center memorial site
By APWednesday, May 26, 2010
Google Earth tool offers preview of WTC memorial
NEW YORK — Visitors to the website of the planned World Trade Center memorial can explore a 3-D model of it, thanks to a partnership between the National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum and Google Earth.
Museum officials said Wednesday that the model will help the public visualize the memorial and its lower Manhattan setting. Visitors can zoom in and look at each tree and cobblestone or zoom out and look at the entire project.
Those who visit the museum in person will see recreations of the vigils and makeshift memorials that sprang up around the city after the attacks. They also will see portraits of the victims.
The museum is scheduled to open in 2012.
Online:
National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum, www.national911memorial.org/
