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I’m semi-offline, travelling in India this week, but had a little time to check out Google Earth, which just launched. This is basically the Keyhole software, integrated with Google. It provides a 3-d interface to satellite imagery and GIS data for the whole earth, including terrain, 3-d building models in a few metro areas (such as San Francisco) and is free for personal use.

The main downside is that it’s a fat client (10MB to download), and requires an internet connection to log in on the image server. It’s great fun to play with though, and I can see a new round of interesting applications similar to the Google Maps hacks that have been emerging over the past few months.

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