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This is right on the money. People will be blown away by what google maps will look like after enough browsers have WebGL capabilities and the maps team switche
by xal 16y ago
This is right on the money. People will be blown away by what google maps will look like after enough browsers have WebGL capabilities and the maps team switches to that technology instead of the crude javascript tiling that they rely on right now.
- rbranson 16y agoUnfortunately the companies that they (Bing, Yahoo, Google, etc) buy the map data from would be very much against pushing their precious vector data out into the public. All of the licensing is setup and specifically deals with tiling maps. It will take years and years before the lawyers agree to it and figure out the licensing details. Perhaps Google can circumvent this in the US because they own their US data, but what about the rest of the world?