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Google Earth, Now With Browser Goodness

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the nutritious-and-delicious dept.

Google announced this week that their Google Earth application can now be used from the browser, instead of having to download and install the desktop application. "Google also launched an JavaScript API that lets you interact with the globe, draw markers, add layers or integrate with Google Maps. 'The Google Earth Plug-in and its APIs let you embed the full power of Google Earth and its 3D rendering capabilities into your web pages.' Google LatLong blog announced that each Google Maps mashup can take advantage of the new 3D view by adding a single line of code. 'Our goal is to open up the entire core of Google Earth to developers in the hopes that you'll build the next great geo-based 3D application, and change how we view the world.'"

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  1. Google Earth wasn't sending enough data home by GigaHurtsMyRobot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now they can connect your browsing habits with your satellite voyeurism.

  2. Why, why, why by sakdoctor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So now it can run substantially on a (huge) plug-in inside my browser. How is this different or more convenient just because the window is wrapped in the browser.

    Seems everything must run inside the browser these days. When can I get windows vista for firefox?

    1. Re:Why, why, why by mmkkbb · · Score: 4, Informative

      You could theoretically embed this in a web page where one would use maps now.

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      -mkb
    2. Re:Why, why, why by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny

      When can I get windows vista for firefox? It's not likely to be available for firefox, but soon you will be able to run it within emacs.
  3. Not compatible with: by Andy_R · · Score: 5, Informative

    All Linux browsers
    Firefox (Macintosh)
    Safari (all platforms)
    Firefox 3 (all platforms)
    Opera (all platforms)... ... and so on

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    A pizza of radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi z z a
  4. Re:Real markers by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Funny

    Aww crap! I thought they meant real markers! ...

    Anyone know how to get sharpie out of LCD?

    Take off and nuke the whole site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. ;-)

    Cheers
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    Lost at C:>. Found at C.
  5. Where on Google Earth is Carmen Sandiego? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Browser Edition. Come on, you know you want to make it!

  6. Nice way to max the CPU by Zerbey · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, it went mental and spawned three processes that happily chewed up my CPU and started eating memory as a side dish. Oh, and Firefox crashed.

    It's a beta, right? ;-)

  7. Wine by tepples · · Score: 4, Informative

    When will Google finally release a Linux SketchUp, or at least include its main modeling features into the Web version?

    Have you tried SketchUp in Wine? If you did, and it didn't work, have you submitted problem reports to the Wine team and to Google?

  8. Fucking Blog Spam by street+struttin' · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try linking a real link instead. http://code.google.com/apis/earth/