Google Earth and Google Local still remain different worlds to some degree. Google Earth has a huge amount of street map information for Europe that Google Local doesn't; but Google Local's extensive Japanese-language street atlas of Japan has no counterpart in Google Earth. (Granted, it would be hard to integrate; it's informationally dense enough that Japan doesn't even have a hybrid view in Google Local, which would probably require a wholesale overhaul of the map data to thin it out a little. And then there's the whole i18n question that Google doesn't seem to have faced head-on yet. Always using the local language works well enough as long as foreigners can suss out the local writing system, but there really ought to be a mechanism for going beyond that; even if they don't have a Chinese-language map of Boston, the capability to put one in ought to be there.)
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Date: 2006-02-11 11:20 am (UTC)