Comments on: Google Earth is the Novelty Wearing Off? The Occupied Virtual Earth

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:06:00 +0000

I think GE has more value in the local -delivering a geographical data analysis tool that enables campaign groups to collaborate and use published data to perform their own analysis that thy couldn’t normally afford. Organisations like my own should be using it so communicate more about local issues like flood risk etc – then using the visualiastion tools to demonstrate the solutions, such a new wetlands, or flood defences created digitally. Its success will lie in helping to communicate geographical issues, not just the browsing.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 10:02:00 +0000

and I think that after that boom – when GE became an ordinary part of our life – we should accept it as a new common and every-day-use tool for travelling and other geo-info based activities – that is why I think software is still far ahead the hardware – yes it’s nice to play with earth at home but there is no practical use to that – but when I’m to travel from europe to USA I would definately appreciate handheld capable of runnig GE on the go…Nothing remains hidden and you can never get lost

By: tomchang

tomchang — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:27:00 +0000

i heard about a next generation ‘second life’l ike based on google earth technology in order to mix google earth and web 2.0 apps. More on http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/25/1437249

cheers
tom