14 DAY TRIAL // The revolutionary mapping tool Google Earth is more and more used with a different goal than the original one that encouraged users to view satellite maps and other imagery with the entire world. According to USA Today, Mary Ann Hitt, executive director of non-profit Appalachian Voices, sustained that numerous organizations are using the Google downloadable application to monitor the evolution of the mountains because most of them are affected by the coal-mining industry.
"This has revolutionized our thinking," Hitt said here Wednesday at the Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth according to the same source. "It's given us the ability to give the kind of tour of the mountains that we only could give previously to the media or government officials. This gives an audience of 200 million people," she added.
In the recent period, Google Earth evolved a lot but sometimes it's not enough to conquer the users and obviously the market. For example, Google Earth was quietly received a major update after a new beta version, 4.1, was rolled out. The new release brings interoperability with Google Maps, allowing users to view a certain location straight in the window of your browser.
However, the product attracted users' criticism because it was reported that Google Earth was used in the organization of the terrorist attacks from the JFK International Airport. Although the attempts were stopped before they happened, it revealed an important issue powered by Google Earth because, several problems appear once the program is improved. Since the application was improved with detailed imagery, it started to show several secret locations, showing sensitive information from every corner of the world.
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