Open-Sourcing Google Earth Enterprise
Google has announced
that Google Earth Enterprise (GEE) will be published on GitHub under the
Apache2 license in March. GEE is an enterprise product that allows
developers to build and host their own private maps and 3D globes. This
release includes GEE Fusion, GEE Server, and GEE Portable Server source
code. "Feedback is important to us and we’ve heard from our
customers that GEE remains in-use in mission-critical applications. Many
customers have not transitioned to other technologies. Open-sourcing GEE
allows our customer community to continue to improve and evolve the project
in perpetuity. Note that the Google Earth Enterprise Client, Google Maps
JavaScript® API V3 and Google Earth API will not be open sourced. The
Enterprise Client will continue to be made available and updated. However,
since GEE Fusion and GEE Server are being open-sourced, the imagery and
terrain quadtree implementations used in these products will allow
third-party developers to build viewers that can consume GEE Server
Databases." (Thanks to Paul Wise)