There’s nothing quite like getting a default layer in Google Earth:-) Panoramio now has 1 million georeferenced photos in its database.Got Vista? There’s an updated version of Google Earth for you to download.There’s a new version of KMLer, the ArcGIS extension that lets you export and import KML, by Valery Hronusov.Overlays of antique maps of Russian cities, by Valery Hronusov.
It’s ironic (just a little) that Google, meanwhile, has a standalone application, though for three different platforms. I would be better off building a Windows application. In fact as a developer, if I know I am only targeting the Windows platform then a browser is not going to provide the richest user experience. My personal opinion is the 3D has issues with being an ActiveX control that runs on Windows and IE only, it is not really web. Via Virtual Earth asks why the 3D features of Virtual Earth have been slow on the uptake with developers, but has the answer handy:.Older is worse.įinally, the article also reminds us of Indian President A P J Abdul Kalam’s call in April 2006 for “a new law to prevent foreign satellites from getting images of sensitive locations in India and make such attempts a cognizable offense,” despite the fact that country sovereignty does not extend into space, where these satellites are. Blurring needs to be done by satellite companies… targeting Google Earth will not fix the problem.Īll true, but it does bear repeating that while technically “We have never degraded image quality” is not the same as replacing existing DigitalGlobe tiles wholesale with older versions (which is what was done in Iraq), the effect is certainly the same. If images damage security then they need to talk to satellite companies. The government needs to deal with this issue at the level of satellite companies because they are selling images to us… mapping services etc are available commercially… sometimes free of cost and sometimes for a price. We have never degraded image quality… The images available on Google Earth are also available for purchase from various satellite companies in market. We take security concerns seriously but obscuring images will not help. The short version: “We have not yet decided whether or not to blur some key sites,” according to Andrew McLaughlin, Google’s head of Global Public Policy (is that title a first for a company? How do you get that job?:-) India’s The Economic Times revisits the ongoing saga regarding spots on Google Earth that the Indian government would like to see censored.
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