Kind of funny how people are missing something very important with the CNet Article about “Google Ocean”.. (Never mind the fact you could view 3D oceans way back in 2004 when WorldWind was released), the screen shots that CNet shows use GeoMapApp and GeoMapapp, to anyone that reads my blog would know, is built on WWJava and leverages the same data as WorldWind uses as well as multibeam and predicted topography compiled by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) of Columbia University.

About the only difference between a Google Ocean and what is already usable now, is KML placemarks.  Unless Google is going to spend millions to re-map the ocean bottoms.. the data will be the same for all virtual globes.

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