![]() ![]() ![]() That all came to an end rather abruptly thanks to Google Being Google, and we were forced to pivot back to an ESRI-based web portal for delivery. Its rare to see farmers, a tech-skeptic demographic, take to a tool like that. I used it for a brief, heady 2 year period to deliver natural resource info, and the end users fucking loved it. The interface was insanely clunky and weird, but it worked. For those who never saw it, it was a backend solution that let people host and publish their own data on GE. One of the big fails in the early 2010s IMO was Google Earth Enterprise (Fusion, Server etc) getting the rugpull treatment. ![]() Tragically, there's not a lot of cash to be farmed out of that space, so we are where we're at. Actual GIS people keep ruining this because they don't understand the use case, which is 99% on the level of 'show my Strava records' and 'show me if the street I'm thinking of renting on looks sus'. Hah! GE is popular because people who don't use GIS just Get It. ![]()
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