Letters

Letters

  • December 2005
  • By TR Readers

Letters from our readers.

   

Digital Cartography

Your excellent cover story ("Killer Maps," October 2005) captured the developing landscape of competition between the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo over new location-based browsing, searching, and visualization. It's appropriate you began the article by describing the highly interactive nature of Google Earth and its 3-D interface for showing the earth.

Although mapping applications like Microsoft's Virtual Earth and Yahoo Maps have APIs for customization, Google Earth uses a standardized XML-like interface allowing both simple and complex database enhancements, which tens of thousands of people have used to share many new innovative data sources, among them 3-D flight tracking, spread of avian flu, and collections of panorama images.
Frank Taylor
Raleigh, NC

 

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