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Google Maps now has Terrain view
- gaborcselle 19y agoWow! Wow wow wow. This is really awesome drawing technology. I wonder where they get the data from.
- tmm1 19y agofrom NAVTEQ, who in turn get it from the Census Bureau TIGER project
- gaborcselle 19y agoAre you sure Navteq has elevation data for the entire world? They have high-resolution elevation maps for Europe as well.
- neilc 19y agoThere's also an ability to have users contribute corrections to Google Maps data ("Fix it"), which I haven't noticed before: http://maps.google.com/help/maps/edit/promo.html#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-mapshpp-na-us-google&utm_medium=mapshpp&utm_term=edit http://maps.google.com/help/maps/edit/promo.html#utm_campaig...
- cdr 19y agoThe direct-edit is new as of last week (http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/11/think-globally-mark-locally.html http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/11/think-globally-ma...), although there was a buried form to submit inaccurate data before. Much-needed feature - the lack of accurate "last hundred yards" information is the #1 problem with current mapping applications.
- jsomers 19y agoAt least in my area (Ann Arbor), the resolution is too low to see much. As a cyclist/runner, for instance, one might be curious about steep inclines around town. No such luck here.
- marvin 19y agoOne of these days, Google needs to get their act together and create a _real_ flight simulator. A data set like this is the stuff that legendary software is made of. Just imagine what you could do with this accurate terrain data, satellite imagery and a few CPU-centuries of pattern recognition. Who says we don't need terabyte hard dives? We need petabytes.