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- DigiDave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9This means we can scan the enviornment to investigate environmental degradation from the comfort of our home computer.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9It might be open source, but that doesn't mean that its okay to use image data that google have had to pay many millions for (not to mention the bandwidth that is used when you're browsing around the world using that data).
Thats why the C&D was sent, rightfully so as well. - mdedens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4How about that example at the article's end... you can see the spot from space... kinda looks like the human race is just eating the planet. Do you think people can keep multiplying and expect resources like this to still be around for everyone to live comfortably in 50 years? (even in America?)
- schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Gaia, which is Open Source, has just come back with NASA data as well. It's on SourceForge. Google Earth sent a C&D recently....
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=183522&release_id=468497
I only mention this because the idea of Open Source-type supervision becomes symbiotic. - EntropyMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The key is to add your own overlays for things like individual rain forests. Don't necessarily rely on or wait for Google to buy the data you need.
But Google Earth was designed to provide an easy way to stitch all sorts of data sources together to make a compelling presentation of earth data. It's much more powerful as a way to show global deforestation in something like a heatmap, for example, than as a way to find needles in haystacks, though that's important too. - jacko1990, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0xDCCf
- l3lueMage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0you can use it to spy on military activities on other countries LOL
- CrackNSniff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Psh gaia is linux only.
- ElChimbonda, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1umm so is gaya just google earth for linux?
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