Here is an article I got from my RSS reader, posted on TechCrunch on 28 May 2008, author Mark Hendrickson at http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/28/google-earths-3d-goodness-comes-to-the-browser/. The artilce reads......
"The Google Earth team announced it has ported the Google Earth desktop client’s 3D mapping technology into the browser. Website developers are now able to embed 3D maps, which can be modified using Google’s JavaScript API to add KML data, draw 3D buildings, attach callbacks, and more. The entire embed is powered by a special Google Earth Browser Plugin that end users must install. Unfortunately, it’s only available for Internet Explorer and Firefox users on Windows. Google is not offering the equivalent of a default installation of Google Earth in the browser. If you want to search the globe from square one, you still need to visit the 2D Google Maps website. Therefore, this release is mainly a developer one - not really a new product launch."
Many readers of the original posting/article have commented that this is not a major deal since Microsoft has been doing this for over a year.
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very cool
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