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French Web Mapping Competitor to Google Earth
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on Wednesday March 08, @07:51AM
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A slashgeo user wrote to me sharing this article (in French) introducing IGN's Geoportail, which provides a France-centric Google Earth experience (the 10 screenshots can be understood even if you don't read French ;-). In short, the Institut Géographique National (IGN) will provide a Google Earth-like tool with 400,000 photographs at a 50 cm spatial resolution to be launched in Summer 2006. They target full 3D views for 2007. Cadastral information will be included along with the large IGN information database.
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This press release indicates the French government chose SkylineGlobe for its 3D national geospatial web portal. From the PR: "It will be the first and only 3D globe that includes high resolution imagery covering entire France and will include the ability to interactively fly over highly realistic 3D terrain and urban environments. [...] The web site development as well as database management is being handled by I.G.O. a Vinci company using SkylineGlobe as a multiplatform web based application (Windows, Mac and Linux). [...] ‘After a long review process of available 3D solutions, IGN came to a conclusion that SkylineGlobe with its extensive API is the only solution that would let them create the scaleable customized web-based application that they wanted’ he continued.
“France will be the first country to create their own web based public 3D Earth portal”"
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