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Article: Google Earth: Officially All Over the Map
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 3, 2005
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You can't accuse Google of thinking small these days. Having sewn
up, upended or merely rejuvenated the markets for Web searching, Web-
mail services, digital photography and file searching, it's now set
its sights on something slightly larger: the Earth.
Google Earth, a new, free download from the Mountain View, Calif.,
firm, takes the Google Maps service into multiple dimensions. Instead
of presenting top-down views of maps or satellite photos, this
software (based on a program called Keyhole that Google bought last
October) wraps those high-resolution satellite photos on a three-
dimensional model of our planet's land surface that recreates every
molehill and mountain, then lets you ...