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- kidcodea, on 10/15/2007, -0/+13i personally believe that uhmm... us americans...i mean like... MAPS
- objectcode, on 10/16/2007, -1/+11the error must have been caused by something between the chair and keyboard
- BillBail, on 10/15/2007, -1/+10Why reverse engineer it when you can just read about how Jim Gray and Microsoft built TerraServer in the early 90's? http://research.microsoft.com/~gray/Papers/MSR_TR_ ...
- longbow486, on 10/15/2007, -2/+10"Click a button to zoom out, and soon you'll see the state capitol, the celebrated Zakim Bridge, and maybe some other college up the river"
must be an MIT grad - tubeblender, on 10/15/2007, -0/+5Here is the article minus the advertisements:
http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_a ... - EasyEve, on 10/15/2007, -1/+6Why the F do we have to watch the advertisement before we can read the content- this is *****! We should report yu for spam. If you want to get impressions on your ads so you can get paid, integrate it into the content!
- kaflink, on 10/17/2007, -0/+4http://flashearth.com
- EBFoxbat, on 10/15/2007, -0/+4Streamed over the internet vi a TCP/IP protocol after digital images from several miles up have been taken and appended to the file and before a traffic density overlay has been imposed?
- EBFoxbat, on 10/15/2007, -1/+4Me too, then I can report you as spam and never have to read your comments again.
- tubeblender, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_a ... (You are correct!) Dugg you up for being right.
- scarwars, on 10/16/2007, -0/+3why bury him? he's right..
you can view at a better detail (atleast my hometown) and you can view it from the four wind directions.. not just the top down like in google - tizz66, on 10/16/2007, -5/+7They had satellites thousands of years ago? Maybe you should RTFA before commenting.
- CosmicJustice, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2They waited for the hardware to catch up then embraced and extended Microsoft's original idea.
- singu, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2Well, the only mistake Google made is that they talk about a road that is not there... yet.
- wiifm69, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Google can map the entire world with 200k of JavaScript, all digg does is comments and it takes 343k. WTF
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Yeah the ends justify the means.
- objectcode, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1buried as inaccurate i assume?
- synarchy, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1Thanks. I never bothered to check, but there's much better detail and the views are amazing from the four directions (although the images used for the views are separated by many years, which is funny.)
- OhROFL, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1I always thought the zoomed around in their GoogleJet and took pictures of the Earth below... no?
- ORBAT, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1and South Africa and Iraq, where we US Americans... umm... and maps.
- MGopinath, on 10/15/2007, -1/+2Google Maps for your Nokia and Sony Ericsson Mobiles http://mgopinath.blogspot.com/2007/10/google-maps- ...
- prettyha8, on 10/16/2007, -8/+9-"Google Maps is the best"
- > "TRU DAT"
-"Double True!!" - ORBAT, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Google didn't invent maps? The hell you say!
- objectcode, on 10/15/2007, -2/+2microsoft has never copied anything
- samzklub, on 10/15/2007, -3/+3is it just me or is this guy a terrible writer? i didn't even want to finish the article because trying to figure out what he meant was giving me a headache. he needs to go back and take a ***** writing class.
- Makaveli604, on 10/15/2007, -0/+0I see nothing wrong with that. It's capitalism. If they were succesful, it doesn't matter if the reason for it is timing or quality.. they did it right, and it paid off.
- TjLAXattack, on 10/15/2007, -1/+1Yes, CIA DI -> NIMA - > NGA has been doing this.
- GeekyGerge, on 10/15/2007, -1/+1Magic.
- beelah, on 10/17/2007, -0/+0Augmenting reality.
- alex199, on 10/17/2007, -0/+0Google maps is truly an amazing program. Makes you wonder what type of satellite images governments have access to ?? They might be watching Digg this as we speak.
- ReallyOswald, on 10/15/2007, -6/+5If Google maps the world, how come it gave me directions with a route that never has existed... EVER!
- Tenareth, on 10/15/2007, -3/+1If you ever used TerraServer and realized how painfully slow it was, you'd realize Google didn't do anything like it.
- JoaoPe, on 10/15/2007, -7/+3Next article: How does Google invented the wheel?
Buried as useless and old news. - kidcodea, on 10/15/2007, -7/+1its chronicles of.. NARNIAAAAAAAAAAa
- Topher06, on 10/16/2007, -17/+11Google didn't invent maps, they have been mapping the world for thousands of years. Google takes data from map companies and puts it online, end of story.
- countof5, on 10/15/2007, -13/+3The first thing Google™ needed to do on its quest of world domination was map its domain. Can't wait for my Google™ microchip and Google™ forehead tattoo.
- zomgorly, on 10/16/2007, -16/+6I have always found better maps on maps.live.com
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