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Online Learning: Google Earth Now Viewable Inside Web Browsers - Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek
Maps from Google Earth, a desktop application, can now be viewed online through a new browser plug-in. In addition, Web site owners can now embed Google Earth 3-D views into Web pages. "Driven by an extensive JavaScript API, you can control the camera; create lines, markers, and polygons; import 3-D models from the Web and overlay them anywhere on the planet," said Google engineer Paul Rademacher in a blog post. "In fact, you can even overlay your content over different planets, stars, and galaxies by toggling Sky mode, letting you build 3-D Google Sky mashups. You can also enable 3-D buildings with a single line of JavaScript, attach JavaScript callbacks to mouse events, fetch KML data from the Web, and more." KML is a file format for displaying geographic data in a browser.
  posted by Ray at 6/06/2008 01:09:00 AM permanent item link   

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