Dear Hill, Thanks for your comments and I completely agree with you. Scientist will embrace it, initially to visualize and communitcate their knowledge and later to influence societal decision making. For me, Google is already the main knowledge access tool I use in my daily work. When Google Earth and other geospatial tools are fully integrated with it, we will have a real knowledge management service, especially for the geo-sciences: a sytems which allows integration, analysis, modeling etc. If we integrate the global geospatial data infratructure initiatives with GE, we can rapidly move to a societal geospatial knowledge infratructure.

By the way, I found GE particularly useful for reconstructing and comparison with the earliest oblique aerial photography available.(taken often before the 1930’s from fixed wing aircraft)

This is an example I used for permafrost comparision between 1926 and 2005.

for more information see also
http://www.geostrategis.com/p_mapm2.html.
and
http://www.geostrategis.com/p_sensitivity.htm

home base
http://www.geostrategis.com