Geobrowser
= application for consulting geospatial data and managing geolocalized information
Description
Juan Martin Prada:
"Among all the “geobrowsers” (applications for consulting geospatial data and managing geolocalized information), some of them, such as NASA World Wind, Google Earth or Microsoft Live Local 3D, have taken on great relevance and are used by a huge number of people, as well as the vast proliferation of blogs and websites related to these geobrowsers, e.g. Google Earth blog or Google Maps Mania.
Given that the majority of geobrowsing platforms offer APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) or XML scripting for carrying out services on their platforms, creating applications to generate geographic contents is a booming field today. A “geospatial web” can be said to exist now, made up of all these types of applications and geographic data management services."
(IDC mailing list January 2009)
Examples
- NASA World Wind, Google Earth or Microsoft Live Local 3D