Google Adds Places Layer to Google Earth; Talks Mapping and Georgian Conflict
Google has added a “Places” Layer to Google Earth. Content from Wikipedia, Panaramio, YouTube and the Google Earth community have been wrapped up into a “single, multifaceted layer.”
The Places layer is found in the Geographic Web layers section on Google Earth.
Meanwhile, Google is also addressing the difficulty of mapping in tumultuous regions of the earth, such as the countries along the southern Russian border that were previously states in the former Soviet Union.
Google says they haven’t been confident in the data culled thus far, so they’ve been waiting until they have more comprehensive data for the region. While some have pondered whether or not that data was previously there and now removed as a result of the conflict in Georgia, Google assures users that the data was never there in the first place.
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