Google Maps Explorer and temporary images
Luistxo Fernandez
2005/08/22 18:40
A new website to collect data as seen in the satellite imagery of Google Maps: Google Maps Explorer. It's a nice site. Categorization resembles tagging at Tagzania.
There's a sensible category on the first page: TEMPORARY. Many of the things that we spot with Google Maps/Earth are obviously temporary: a plane flying here or there, for instance. On the long term, when imagery gets renewed, what will happen to those dozens of curious images being bookmarked now? they will be forgotten? Perhaps something like Google Maps Explorer may function as an Archive.org-like directory of marvelous things (images) past.