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Google Earth Adds Wikipedia and Other Layers

posted by Satri on Tuesday December 12, @01:33PM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the ubiquitous-web-of-layers dept.

Google announced news layers in Google Earth, including a layer of Wikipedia entries. From the official blog: "The new Geographic Web layer we released today is one of those features. We've taken the rich data of Wikipedia, Panoramio, and the Google Earth Community and made a browsable layer in Google Earth. Now you can fly anywhere in the world and see what people have written about it, photographed, or posted."

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