Links: Update for Vista; Panoramio hits 1 million photos

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 (22:55 UTC)
  • Via Virtual Earth asks why the 3D features of Virtual Earth have been slow on the uptake with developers, but has the answer handy:
    My personal opinion is the 3D has issues with being an ActiveX control that runs on Windows and IE only, it is not really web.

    In fact as a developer, if I know I am only targeting the Windows platform then a browser is not going to provide the richest user experience. I would be better off building a Windows application.
    It's ironic (just a little) that Google, meanwhile, has a standalone application, though for three different platforms.
  • Overlays of antique maps of Russian cities, by Valery Hronusov.
  • There's a new version of KMLer, the ArcGIS extension that lets you export and import KML, by Valery Hronusov.
  • Got Vista? There's an updated version of Google Earth for you to download. (Via Google Earth Blog).
  • Panoramio now has 1 million georeferenced photos in its database. That was fast. There's nothing quite like getting a default layer in Google Earth:-)

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I love Panoramio, but it sure would be nice to have an 'official' Flickr layer. I guess that would be sleeping with the competition, though. (I know there is an ad hoc flickr network link available, but it is buggy and sometimes crashes Google Earth).

Posted by: Lauren Steely at 6:55 UTC, March 22, 2007

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