On Dec 9, 2006, at 17:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am not sure that this is a google earth issue. It looks like
someone used the Google API and built a site."panoramio.com". Maybe
their API is too open.
Did anyone contact GoogleEather to see if it was their site or a
hack job. Or are we all going to just leap to conclusions without
researching the facts. I wil contact Google Earth on Monday and Ask
them if it is theirs unless someone does it earlier.
Well, actually, I have to admit, I realized after I sent this that I
conflated the logo issue and the GE "geographic web" issue where, as
you point out, they are different. "Geographic web" is not what leaps
to mind with what GE presents as such.
Quoting Allan Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Whoops. Hit 'send' too soon!
On Dec 9, 2006, at 15:53, Allan Doyle wrote:
I guess had I opened Google Earth before I had read this, my
reaction would have been one of surprise at how fairly lame and
useless it is to toss up a bunch of seemingly undifferentiated
points and call them a geographic web.
Then I might have picked up on the Panoramio logo issue and
would have thought it to be at best an unfortunate choice. I
have been through some logo designs myself and know how hard it
is to not bump into someone else's ideas yet keep some kind of
an evocative theme.
I think Google Earth's stance is pretty clear. They care first
and foremost about getting their product out there and tend to
show they have a very introverted or at least self-centered
corporate culture. There may well be legions of GE marketing
types who know nothing about either open standards or open
source. I see this as a result of GE's genesis in the "black"
world of
well, you got the picture anyway...
The sad fact is that 99% of GE users will look at this and think
it's revolutionary. But we know better. It's Red Dot Fever
(thanks to Schuyler for that term!)
Vote with your mouse. Turn the layer off.
Allan
On Dec 9, 2006, at 15:08, Mike Liebhold wrote:
I clicked on google earth today, to follow my daughter &
husband's journey from brazil into argentina, and found an
unexpected new default view.
I don't know which is more offensive:
1, That google would add a new default selected layer called
"geographic web" that is - no way - a "geographic web"
or
2. that that the prominent logo on many proprietary kml
placemark pages from these "geographic web" points is so
derivitive/poached from the widely recognized OSGEO logo. see
panoramio.com
And it's kind of counter-intuitive to see some non-editable
wikipedia pages have mysteriously been imported into google's
own non-standard kml format.
If google earth actually supported standards, starting with
html and georss, wfs/wms/gml I guess they could claim a
"geographic web". Until then it looks like a clearly blantant
appropriation for private advantage of the term "geographic
web" that explicitly means open standard hypermedia, to most
rational people.
check it out.
- Mike Liebhold
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