This article reviews the motivations, approaches, and accomplishments in applying genus loci—the sense of place—to advance Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

mtj on earth and gmaps

Collaborative Mapping Redux

many NGO just want an interface for users to throw some information on the map – like Google Earth. But they don’t want to be passing KML files all around. they need a ‘cvs for the geospatial web’.

Google Earth is still weak sauce

The ‘outrage’ that fostered this particular rant is the completely broken way in which it supports ‘management’ of ‘my places.’ Basically, it just doesn’t work for any definition of work which includes what I consider the bare minimum functionality. The only interface to your data is to organize it hierarchically. And frankly the drag and drop interface is persnickety as hell, and painful to use.

complaints about the left-side panel. justified, i think