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| Subject: | RE: [gislist] google maps |
| Date: |
02/16/2005 09:20:01 AM |
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Tim Smith |
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Who develops them?
-----Original Message----- From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com [mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of Bill Thoen Sent: 16 February 2005 14:40 To: gislist@lists.thinkburst.com Subject: RE: [gislist] google maps
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Michael Gould wrote:
> Yes, another example of how, when you want to paint fast maps on the > screen, you don't need a heavy GIS-based solution behind the scenes, only a=20 > clever programmer. Terraserver demonstrated this several years back: lots=20 > of server power and lots of GBs, but a simple concept for retrieval and=20 > visualization. The swiss map is even simpler, because they manage fewer=20 > possible tiles.
Makes you wonder why most of the major popular GIS applications (Mapquest, MapPoint, Terraserver, and now Google) are being developed by companies not known for their GIS capabilities.
- Bill Thoen
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