October 16, 2007

How Google Earth is Made

Google Earth - How Google Maps the World Simson Garfinkel, Technology Review (Nov/Dec 2007)

Fascinating -- Images in Google Maps a"re actually a combination of aerial photos and satellite ­imagery--and a lot of post­processing. Technology Review interviewed engineers at Google and at ­DigitalGlobe, the company that supplies Google's satellite photos, and did a little bit of reverse-engineering to figure out how it works."

Posted by Gwen at October 16, 2007 01:15 AM