Comments on: Jump Into The Sea With Google Ocean

By: technologiez

technologiez — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:33:28 +0000

Uhh, Google already has a project codenamed Project Ocean - its for their ambitious scan every book and provide it online...so would have been good to mention that!
http://technologiez.net

By: sunglasses

sunglasses — Sat, 30 May 2009 08:50:17 +0000

a new huge 3D map project, that's great..

By: Chrysler Used Cars

Chrysler Used Cars — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:59:35 +0000

thanks!

By: John Tucker

John Tucker — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:19:56 +0000

I've been pinging on the folks at Google Earth for this for years. Basically, all they need to do,
all they can do, is to alter their 3D algorithms to accept and process negative numbers.
Note that land areas which are below sea level are also represented incorrectly due to the same flaw. The hydrographic offices of the world have masses of bathymetric data, the oil
companies do too if they care to release it. I have observed lately that US
schools have ceased teaching about negative numbers, perhaps its part of their policy
to deny mistakes or flaws in a vain hope that that will make them go away.
Philosophy aside, the last retort from GE was "but what color is the bottom?",
to which we can easily offer color-coding according to depth ranges.
Judging from the number of hits on our websites, people downloading our free digital
products, I'd guess this would be a very, very big thing. It might even make Google some
extra bucks.
--jt, OCS/NOAA/DOC/USA

By: Jappleng

Jappleng — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:44:17 +0000

Google Ocean will open up new possibilities for researchers by allowing them to monitor changes and effects the ocean has on Earth. It’s possible that Google Ocean might help in forecasting tsunami’s and better accuracy in weather patterns. I cannot wait until this project is ready and available for the public.