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    Google earth to end in 2015

    I wonder how this will affect GPS Mapedit, and others??

    Google vows: Earth will VANISH in 2015
    World-mapping web API to go dark amid obsolete plugin death march
    Earth
    13 Dec 2014 at 03:05, Neil McAllister
    Developers who have built web apps that take advantage of the Google Earth geospatial imaging service have just 12 more months to make the most of them, because the online ad-slinger plans to shut down the Google Earth API next year.

    According to a Friday blog post, Google will continue to fully support the Google Earth API through the coming year, but it will go dark on December 12, 2015, taking any and all Google Earth web apps with it.


    The web isn't really the primary means of accessing Google Earth. The Chocolate Factory provides downloadable client software for PCs and mobile devices, including an enterprise edition for organizations that want to meld their own mapping data with Google's. But some web devs have used the Google Earth API to embed the service's data into their own sites in clever ways.

    The problem is that rendering Google Earth mapping data in 3D in a browser window requires a plugin – and that plugin is rapidly becoming obsolete.

    Specifically, the Google Earth plugin was created for the ancient and insecure browser plug-in architecture called NPAPI, which was first created by Netscape to extend its browser in the 1990s.

    Both Google and Mozilla are working on phasing out support for these archaic plugins in their respective browsers, with support already removed from the 64-bit builds of Chrome for OS X and Windows.

    The web standards community, meanwhile, has been working to add support for hardware accelerated 3D graphics to browsers via the WebGL standard. But if Google is planning to release a WebGL-based client for Google Earth, it's keeping mum for now.

    "3D is in our blood, and while we can’t announce anything just now, we look forward to sharing more exciting product news in the future," Google Maps API product manager Ken Hoetmer said. ®

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12..._to_shut_down/

    #2
    Then i guess good bye to some free apps uses GE, as google may now require them for some fee to use their GE API. Also i read somewhere that GE is planning to have some MAP Update via their MAP Provider (forgot the company name) and this new MAP will have higher resolution. With that, i guess this development wil be expensive and GE must find ways to have some profit on it.

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      #3
      Yes John

      Unfortunately Garmin has nothing really to replace it for Philippines, and Openmaps has a long way to go to catch up with RG both in roads as well as WP's.

      It will be interesting to see how things turn out.

      John, Lipa

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        #4
        Meanwhile get Google Earth Pro for free

        How to get Google Earth Pro for free
        Go to this website: http://www.google.com/earth/download/gep/agree.html
        Accept the “Additional Terms of Service” (Allowing usage data to be collected can be opted out after installation under Options/General)
        Click on ‘Agree and Download’

        Save the setup file to your computer.

        When download is complete, run the setup program by double left-clicking on it.

        After installation launch with the icon on the Desktop by double left-clicking on it.

        This screen appears the first time only where you enter your email address and the License Key ‘gepfree’. Click on ‘Log In’.

        And as the Aussie's say "Bob's your uncle"

        Terry
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        I stay on the leading edge of obsolescence!!
        "It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not take risk cannot win" John Paul Jones

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          #5
          Thank you
          and as the finishing line in the saying is "Bobs your uncle and Fred's your aunt"

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