Posted Monday, December 11th, 2006, at 11:48 am Eastern by Mark Wallace

Stefan Geens at Ogle Earth reports that Google Earth has added two new layers to its default set, and created a new directory for “Geographic Web.” Now included in Google Earth’s default placemark sets are georeferenced articles from Wikipedia and georeferenced photos from photo-sharing site Panoramio. Adding these as default layers is a nice way to promote what Google’s calling the geographic Web. It moves flat Web pages closer to 3D functionality. All that’s needed to complete the circle is for people to add links in Wikipedia’s georeferenced pages that launch Google Earth at the appropriate placemarks.


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