Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Google Earth

I heard Tom's frustrated cry when he read the article about Google Earth maybe going away. The reason for the fear of Google Earth going away? Google Maps are becoming even more intense, now including terrain cover and even "Google Map Community" which includes a wiki type of collaboration.
Google Earth is cool, I'll give you that. I love the new features for the sky. However, a lot of schools that I worked with either in SC or in FL had it blocked because of the tremendous use of bandwidth. For a teacher to model, that was fine. But once you start using it on 30 laptops, well you're really starting to drag the network.
I will say this, the Google Maps and Google Earth FINALLY have my address available and show ALL the street addresses in my community. Yahoo Maps do to now, but the Google ones are a bit more up to date.
Those that use Google Earth or Maps, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

1 comment:

Ben said...

Unfortunately, there's really nothing much to discuss about the "article" (and I use that term loosely) about Google Earth dying off. The author of the post either lives in a cave or believes his own existence and use of the Internet closely mirrors how it's used in the rest of the developed world.

Google has far to many resources, and has a much more powerful tool in Google Earth than it will ever have in Google Maps.