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- EntropyMan, on 10/11/2007, -3/+93Not a bad article, but the title is a little misleading. "How stuff works" is usually about how the technology works, not "how you use it" or "what cool features it has."
On the other hand, do people really want an explanation of how one takes 10,000 different image sources, orthorectifies them into a mercator map, downsamples by powers of two to merge everything, cuts the result into 2^N specially compressed hierarchical image tiles that can be efficiently streamed over broadband, cached on local disk and in memory, and incrementally paged to your video card as multiple roving clipmap layers which can then be re-sampled across tiles and levels of detail to give a seamless result? - zombiedepot, on 10/11/2007, -3/+78Yes, we do. Thanks.
- vroom101, on 10/11/2007, -2/+25Everything on one page:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/google-earth.htm/printable - macbwizard, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16It works by magic. Duh.
- EntropyMan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15Okay, @zombie. If your comment gets, say, 100+ diggs, I'll write an article called "How Google Earth Really Works" and submit it. I'll have to get it cleared by Google, but a lot of the info is already out there in various forms, so it shouldn't be a problem.
- clueless, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Well from here:
http://www.brownianemotion.org/about/
"Avi (EntropyMan) is an inventor, programmer, and author. He was in charge of developing the original "Google Earth" PC client from 1999-2001 for a company called Keyhole."
it seems you would be the man to could actually do that. so cool ... - dustblaaze, on 10/11/2007, -6/+15Thanks for the site vroom101!
- Error601, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Bad title...it's a "how to use google earth".
If you want to to know how it works, search for something like Arcinfo. Google didn't come up with the stuff. - LucasVB, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9@llda: you're wrong.
- EntropyMan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6I just told you how it does it :) (well, at least the imagery part)
- EntropyMan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5"Google didn't come up with the stuff."
Google bought the company that built Google Earth, but it had nothing to do with Arcinfo. - Barryke, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Misleading title.
TFA only explains how to use it. Not how it works. - Automatt, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4You don't have to read it spammed across 11 pages... just use
http://www.howstuffworks.com/google-earth.htm/printable - clueless, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3what the heck... I usually don't login to digg for stuff but I couldn't just let go of that offer.
will be looking forward to it... it better be good :) with the same kind of detail. - EntropyMan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Well, you guys didn't make it to 100, but 72 or 88 isn't bad. I spoke with Google and I can write up an article on at least part of the overall tech -- more on the 3D rendering side. The networking and data processing is still a closely guarded secret, but only because there are a lot of trolls out there -- Google already won one frivolous patent claim lodged against them, and one is more than enough.
I'm not going to submit it myself, but one of you can check my blog periodically, or email me and I'll let you know when it's up. - Philipp_Lenssen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Dugg, but wish the article would not be split into several pages (is that to increase ad views?).
- boonecafe, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5***** title, buried
- Barryke, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Mostly that, and saving on unused bandwidth, and in general most people digest smaller pieces better. Same reason why they still have those columns in newspapers.
- Djanvk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The only thing issue I have with google earth is that I cannot get it so search if I have no internet connection, so that would be a nice feature.
- steal_apps01, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3@ IIda
You're not wrong people don't care how things works. They just expect them to work or else they pay or yell at their family member to fix it, especially with computers.
I don't know how many times someone gets upset when their computer "breaks" and I have to fix a problem I've fixed many times before. Some people just through out the old "broken" computer and buy a new one. - gummih, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It does, but the cache size is only about 500MB by default so it gets flushed pretty fast - but you can up the limit though.
- Ayradv, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1They should combine google earth with street-view and gta and then the fun can start
- Frisbinator, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I read every single page and enjoyed learning about the features about this wonderful piece of software. Think about how cool it will be in say, 5 years from now.
- elcaminos, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I just wish Google Earth could cache the map information on your computer, so I don't have to re-download the same map information over and over every time I use the program.
- tupperwareman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0"Bless them, they'll go to any lengths to ignore magic, even if its staring them in the face...."
- digboy99, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Some Chuck Norris joke seems appropriate here.
- bryceman111, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Whewwwwwwwwwwww. (Big Breath - Inhale)
- jgc7, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1> orthorectifies them into a mercator map
What planet are you looking at? it is clearly using a Gnomonic projection. :) - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -11/+8Google Earth works by not installing Safari on windows.
- hokiefantony, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2"How Google Earth works".......um....the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
- troymccluresf, on 10/11/2007, -7/+3EntropyMan- Yes! :)
But yes, that is a misleading title. I know what Google Earth *is*, I'd like to know how it does it. - killeryugi, on 10/11/2007, -8/+3Steve Jobs
- Suroot, on 10/11/2007, -5/+0Buried for lack of content, and for that matter, my interest!
- ers35, on 10/11/2007, -14/+6The article fails to mention, oddly enough, how Google earth works and any of the technologies behind it.
- sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -14/+5You said orthorectifies.
/butthead - dustblaaze, on 10/11/2007, -19/+5Thanks for the site xDFunk!
- webcure, on 10/11/2007, -23/+5Thanks for the site xDFunk!
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