People of the Nukulaelae island exist also on the Google earth now. This technology has been managed by a joint research with the Watanabe laboratory of the Tokyo Metropolitan University.

Thank you very much for cooperation of Dr. Watanabe and his staff in laboratory in this project. http://tv.mapping.jp/

Installing

1. Install the latest version of Google Earth
2. Download Google Earth data (kmz)
3. Google Earth will be wake up, or drag & drop kmz file into the window of Google Earth.
4. The contents-menu [Build the Future with 10000 Tuvaluans] will be appear in the side-bar of Google Earth.

Browsing

1. Appearances of contents of [Build the Future with 10000 Tuvaluans] will be change by altitude. Altitudes can be changed by right-button-dragging of the mouse.
2. Portraits of Tuvaluans are sorted in order of age. Please operate the time-slider in the upper-left of the window of Google Earth.

Submitting the message

1. The message can be contributed from the balloon. Please click the "Support" button after writing in fields. After a few seconds pass, the Thank you message will be displayed.
2. Blue lines are displayed between "Sender" of the message and Tuvaluans. Location information are automatically acquired from senders' IP addresses.