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During talks with the Indian government, Google issued a statement saying "Google has been talking and will continue to talk to the Indian government about any security concerns it may have regarding Google Earth." [4] Google agreed to blur images on request of the Indian government. [1] The Australian government has decided that images of ...
Discontinued in December 2008, Google Earth Plus was a paid subscription upgrade to Google Earth that provided customers with the following features, most of which have become available in the free Google Earth. [76] One such feature was GPS integration, which allowed users to read tracks and waypoints from a GPS device. A variety of third ...
In October 2006 Google began approaches to acquire the company, [9] but these were rebuffed. However, on May 30, 2007 Google announced plans to acquire the website, [10] and it was acquired by Google in July 2007. [11] Manchón left the company in January 2010 to focus on a new project. [12] [13] He was replaced by Gerard Sanz Viñas. [14]
One of the strengths of Earth3D is the capacity of showing meteorological phenomena, like Low-pressure areas, anticyclones, etc. in near-real time. [2] The original version of Earth3D was developed using Trolltech's QT framework. Later a version built with Java and JOGL was developed. [3] But the demand for a Java-based version was very little.
Brian A McClendon (born 1964) is an American software executive, engineer, and inventor. [1] He was a co-founder and angel investor in Keyhole, Inc., a geospatial data visualization company that was purchased by Google in 2004 [2] [3] to produce Google Earth.
Based on civil requests, Google Earth restores a 3D city map of Taiwan: 06:08, 17 April 2021: 2,754 × 1,398 (1.15 MB) Chubit:
Gott, Goldberg and Vanderbei’s double-sided disk map was designed to minimize all six types of map distortions. Not properly "a" map projection because it is on two surfaces instead of one, it consists of two hemispheric equidistant azimuthal projections back-to-back. [5] [6] [7] 1879 Peirce quincuncial: Other Conformal Charles Sanders Peirce
Google uses GCJ-02 data for the street map, but does not shift the satellite imagery layer, which continues to use WGS-84 coordinates, [45] with the benefit that WGS-84 positions can still be overlaid correctly on the satellite image (but not the street map). Google Earth also uses WGS-84 to display the satellite imagery. [46]