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I admit to looking at it slightly slack-jawed, that wasn't so much future shock as the future punching me square in the face.
https://earth.google.com/web/@53.74539679,-0.32722384,18.713...
I think it's a little funny and symptomatic of HN that we can't take a minute to fucking marvel at the fact that we've got something like this in the first place without going over the font or the whatever. Technology is amazing and moving rapidly, and if we can't take out five minutes to revel in an achievement like this, I don't know what the point is.
Is it really something new, or is it something old, redone in Javascript, with fewer features, though?
Embrace and Extend the web with Chrome only apps like this. Google are basically old Microsoft at this point.
chrome is free, fast to download, runs on most platforms, and in no way forcing you to use it exclusively. It's not like they're asking you to download an .exe with direct3d drivers. you think they need to support microsofts 30 browsers or shouldn't release at all?
I'm not seeing how this is different than an Intranet site requiring Internet Explorer or a video site requiring Flash. Unless you believe that Internet Explorer and Flash are "Bad" and Chrome is "Good"?
The new Apple HQ building site looks impressive in 3D: https://earth.google.com/web/@37.33478572,-122.00939683,47.8... They didn't close the circle yet, to let trucks enter the midsection.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B020'05.2%22N+122%C2...
Embrace and Extend the web with Chrome only apps like this. Google are basically old Microsoft at this point.
I really liked having a separate application to open for Google Earth instead of a browser. I take it this won't be an option any more?
> Of course, you can still access and download Google Earth 7 for desktop
https://blog.google/products/earth/welcome-home-new-google-e...
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I'd like to agree, but this does nothing in Chromium on desktop, does nothing in Firefox, and won't run in Chrome on my Android phone. It's not much more than hearsay to me that it exists at all. I think a certain amount of HN-grade irritation about that is understandable. (I'll try it under Windows when I get home, and then maybe feel more celebratory.)
Specially when https://www.google.pt/maps/@48.8660753,2.291107,562a,35y,160... works alright in other browsers, if you have WebGL capabilities on your system.
They where knocking a large building down near the office recently, this has that building in a partial state of demolition and has modeled the girders that where exposed. I admit to looking at it slightly slack-jawed, that wasn't so much future shock as the future punching me square in the face. https://earth.google.com/web/@53.74539679,-0.32722384,18.713...
This has been around for years.
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It seems this is the Google way. They kill one product (especially a desktop product) and it takes years till the new one is on every feature on the same level as the old one... look at Picasa vs. Google Photos. Even today Picasa can do many more things that Google Photos cannot do today. I'm sure the native/old Google Earth has a ton of stuff which is not ported to the web version. Good they cannot convert Chrome it…
I find it interesting that they recently introduced location sharing to Google Maps as a new feature... which it had back in 2009, until they got rid of it.
I'd like to say they did this to present a clean minimalist app but the recent incarnations of it are more cluttered than the pre Material Design version. Sure you can tap on the map to minimize the clutter and then tap again to make it go away completely but tapping also drops a pin if you hold it for a sixteenth of a second longer. And I hope your touchscreen isn't super sensitive because it'll detect that flutter as a double tap and then you're just zooming.
Anyone knows if there is a parallel "open" version in the works (in WebAssembly or similar)?
I think it's a little funny and symptomatic of HN that we can't take a minute to fucking marvel at the fact that we've got something like this in the first place without going over the font or the whatever. Technology is amazing and moving rapidly, and if we can't take out five minutes to revel in an achievement like this, I don't know what the point is.
I find myself often thinking this. Louis CK sums it up really well when he says "everything is amazing and nobody is happy": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8LaT5Iiwo4