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Browse the news geographically, explore the stars with Google Earth
by Danny Mendez Apr 8th 2008 at 8:00AM
In all honesty, the feature is a great idea, and we're sure the company has some work to do (hopefully adding support for other news outlets), but it comes off as "half-assed" for now with New York (what a surprise!) getting the most NY Times markers. California, Mexico, Michigan, and a few other places get a marker too, and as you can see in the picture, the NY Times provides Google with the most important of news stories. Oh well, it'll probably get a lot better.
Other Google Earth improvements in version 4.2 include a simpler GUI, high-res photos of terrain, the ability to explore stars and constellations, and more.
[via Techmeme]
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Christian said 12:22PM on 4-08-2008
Doesn't Wii have this functionality first?
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Quikboy said 11:37PM on 4-08-2008
Google Earth is nice, but I think the future goes to the Virtual Earth platform MS has. They've done some really nice things and they're going to continue on.
I just wished custom layers, or any type of layer data would appear on Live Maps/VE.
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