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Virtual Shanghai Coming by 2010
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on Monday February 12, @03:02PM
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Ogle Earth has an entry on a 3D webmapping tool coming in 2010 for Shanghai. Nothing really surprising, but the comments are really worthed, including the user comments. A part of the entry: "Wouldn't it be better if IGN and the Shanghai city government made their datasets available in an open format, viewable with a range of virtual globes? [...] You can bet your bottom dollar that this content will be censored, just as GéoPortail's is. [...] 2010 is far off. Google Earth already today lets you show 3D buildings, as does Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D."
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For more information as well as the link to the live demo, please visit the Map Room blog.
For more information as well as the link to the live demo, please visit the Map Room blog.
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