Google has unveiled the New Google Earth API and browser plug-in, allowing web developers to embed Google Earth inside any web page with a few lines of code, while the JavaScript API can be used to to enable Earth-based web applications.
Users are interested in seeing the world’s information in a geographic context, which has lead to the rise of the Geoweb, a collection of user-generated content associated with a given location. The Google Maps API, with over 150,000 developer sites, and the Google Earth client, with over 400 million downloads, are both successful tools to help users visualize this Geoweb of content.
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View the thousands of existing 3D buildings, or add their own 3D models and also switch to Google Sky mode for high-res imagery of stars, planets, and galaxies. As the latest member of their Maps API family, the Google Earth API allows web developers to turn their web pages into 3D map applications. They can now use the Earth as their canvas, leveraging the same technologies used in the desktop Google Earth client.