![]() ![]() The fan in my laptop is buzzing so fast right now it is nearing escape velocity. Not a problem on my 4GB laptop, but if you’re rocking an old Packard Bell, forget it. It will eat 100MB RAM when firing up, and playing with some of the demos made it jump to 300MB. I’ve played around with it a bit, and I have some nits to pick: It adds more viewer functionality to a web-based mapping solution than you can get via simple HTML/Javascript. With it you can integrate your 3D map with Google Maps, load KML files and 3D models, drape images over terrain, etc., all in a fairly familiar environment if you’ve used the Google Maps API before. While plunking a 3D globe on a web page is pretty cool, the Javascript API is the big thing here. You can download it here, and O’Reilly Radar has an in-depth review. Google has released a browser plug-in for Google Earth along with a Javascript API. ![]()
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