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7 Aug 2024 11:21:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: mars color coded elevation maps  
From: Bob Hughes
Date: 14 Mar 2006 06:57:13
Message: <4416af99$1@news.povray.org>
"Mike Williams" <nos### [at] econymdemoncouk> wrote in message 
news:G$YSQHAJGoFEFwB8@econym.demon.co.uk...
> Wasn't it Bob Hughes who wrote:
>>
>>Great! Read about it there and they might be merging it with Google Earth
>>somehow. Wonder if Moon, Venus, etc. are next? Seems to go with it because
>>of how they begin with a vantage point out in space.
>
> Google Moon has been around for ages.
>
> http://moon.google.com/

I think I've actually seen that before, just didn't remember it. Probably 
was posted before in these POV groups someplace. I usually take a look at 
the google web page "more>>" link, though, and there's no hint of the 
existence of a Moon or Mars there!

> Bret Taylor, the Google Product Manager, has said he's going to have a
> look to see if the Earth, Moon and Mars can be made available more
> simply in the Google Maps API.
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/msg/c68beb1e47801f6b
> -- 
> Google Map API Tutorial
> http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/googlemaps/

Good to hear about that. And, hey, you're doing tutorials about that stuff?! 
And I thought you only had the isosurface one!  ;)

Bob


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