Open-Sourcing Google Earth Enterprise

Google has announcedthat Google Earth Enterprise (GEE) will be published on GitHub under theApache2 license in March. GEE is an enterprise product that allowsdevelopers to build and host their own private maps and 3D globes. Thisrelease includes GEE Fusion, GEE Server, and GEE Portable Server sourcecode. "Feedback is important to us and we've heard from ourcustomers that GEE remains in-use in mission-critical applications. Manycustomers have not transitioned to other technologies. Open-sourcing GEEallows our customer community to continue to improve and evolve the projectin perpetuity. Note that the Google Earth Enterprise Client, Google MapsJavaScript(R) API V3 and Google Earth API will not be open sourced. TheEnterprise Client will continue to be made available and updated. However,since GEE Fusion and GEE Server are being open-sourced, the imagery andterrain quadtree implementations used in these products will allowthird-party developers to build viewers that can consume GEE ServerDatabases." (Thanks to Paul Wise)