Google Maps director on "the geoweb"


	Google Maps director on "the geoweb"

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5-13-2007 12:59 PM

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enbar says:

Google's Maps and Earth teams have a blog. This first post is a kind of quick glimpse into their thinking on maps and location-based computing (call it "the geoweb" or "where 2.0" or "earth browsers" or whatever). Via http://301url.com/9w5

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