Announcing Deprecation of the Google Earth API

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7 pointslovelearning3 comments

Huh. Understandable given the ongoing deprecation of the NPAPI, but still surprising to actually see it nonetheless. Wonder if they have any sort of alternative planned. A lot of applications out there that depend on this.

The in-house application I've worked on for the past few years started out using Google Earth, and I later added the ability to use the Cesium WebGL-based library. Wouldn't be surprised if this starts a mass migration over to Cesium.

I think they do have an alternative planned. Perhaps HTML5? In their post, they say "...new Google Earth for Android, powered by a brand new renderer. 3D is in our blood, and while we can’t announce anything just now, we look forward to sharing more exciting product news in the future."

> 3D is in our blood, and while we can’t announce anything just now, we look forward to sharing more exciting product news in the future.

I wonder if there will be a WebGL version someday. I think the requirement of a plugin kept the Google Earth API from being popular.

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