Not really. ESRI technology is so much more than just maps with lat/longs.
Alastair --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, "William McKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is the biggest threat to their business that ESRI will ever see. > > -----Original Message----- > From: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Randy George > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 9:00 AM > To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [svg-developers] Re: Google Maps > > In addition to releasing an api to Google maps, Google has expanded their > maps to cover the world (v=w2.4), not in the same detail as the US though. > > http://www.web-maps.com/GoogleMapExplore/ > > > > The expansion has made lat,long calculations in Google Land much easier. The > keyhole imagery is also accessible but I believe the Terraserver WMS DOQQ is > easier to correlate and probably the imagery is better for the USA. I wonder > if Google keyhole has opened up world wide imagery? > > > > I haven't looked too seriously at the api > > http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/ > > > > It should offer some interesting possibilities beyond simply showing the > google map tiles under svg, especially if they eventually expand the api to > include routing and geocoding. > > > > randy > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ----- > To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -or- > visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my > membership" > ---- > Yahoo! Groups Links ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
