Browse The Earth With EarthBrowser On Your Mac
Sometimes we bump into solutions that are looking for a problem. One of the first utilities to use Adobe’s new AIR platform looks that way.
Because something common can be done a different way doesn’t mean it should be done that way. After all, the road less traveled is often less traveled for a reason.
EarthBrowser is billed as a revolutionary new platform for viewing and creating geographically based information. I don’t mean to be picky, but hasn’t that already.... (excerpted).
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Matt Giger said:
Wow, harsh review. I’m Matt Giger, the author of EarthBrowser. Actually EarthBrowser was around for about 5 years before the Keyhole people created Keyhole EarthViewer, which got bought out by Google, so it’s not me that re-invented the virtual earth. The thing about EarthBrowser running in AIR is that it means that it is written entirely in Flash, and will soon be embedded on any website. A little slow on older machines, certainly, but a real-time 3D virtual globe embedded on any website is pretty cool.