ViewGL

ViewGL is a downloadable program developed by Aerials Express that provides updated aerial photography content through Google Earth. The development of ViewGL reflects a core issue confronting Google Earth's mission to accurately represent the planet Earth: data management. As of now, Google Earth is a patch-work of satellite and airborne imagery from various sources. Maintaining the accuracy and currency of this data for the United States, let alone the entire planet, is a daunting task. This results in significant portions of the Google Earth photography being outdated, having a tiled appearance, containing clouds, and being poorly projected. [Microsoft, Google Fight in Sky - San Francisco Chronicle [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/07/26/BUGM6DTAOU1.DTL&type=business] ] [Outdated Google Imagery Makes New Orleans Land of Make-believe - Associated Press [http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=6300251] ] Consequently ViewGL has specialized in supplying the most current aerial imagery of US metropolitan areas possible, resulting in higher accuracy.

ee also

*Google Earth
*Keyhole Markup Language
*List of Google services and tools

External links

* [http://aerialsexpress.com/aex/aex-public/viewgl.aspx ViewGL Download Site]
* [http://www.earth.google.com/ Google Earth]

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