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Ogle Earth reports on a new "browser" from Japan. Here is their summary "New geobrowser alert: The Cosmos Globalbase Browser, out of Japan. There are instructions in English, but language remains a bit of a barrier, and often I'm not quite sure what I'm supposed to be doing. Still, it's all brand new, there appears to be open-source origins, and the premise is an interesting one:"
It's still quite cryptic as to what it is so perhaps we can discuss in comments. From what I gathered when I quickly glanced over it was that it is a way to build a global cache of geospatial data, or a way to create a huge data repository with data from all around the web???
It's still quite cryptic as to what it is so perhaps we can discuss in comments. From what I gathered when I quickly glanced over it was that it is a way to build a global cache of geospatial data, or a way to create a huge data repository with data from all around the web???
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