According to Government Computer News, Google Inc. will be geo-enabling its search engine with the recent acquisition of Keyhole, a digital mapping company. Keyhole’s technology lets a user enter an address, “fly” over a 3-D image of it, zoom and tilt, measure distances and find things around it.
“The Google engine will be part of the second-generation Geospatial One-Stop e-government site, said John Calkins, a technical consultant with contractor ESRI of Redlands, Calif. Calkins said the Google spatial engine will handle ‚Äúup to 8 billion records‚Äù of metadata. The spatial version of the Google Search Appliance is not yet commercially available.”
Tags: Google, Keyhole, spatial, search engine
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