GLOBALBASE

Author: Hirohisa Mori / joshua at globalbase.org + [Transrate]Reiko Inoue Bendtsen c/o Suzaku Translations / (http://www.suzaku-translations.com/) +

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A generic term for technologies and software for linking geographical information throughout the world using distributed technologies ( P2P networks etc.) to create a seamless virtual space, as well as initiatives to create such data. Please refer to (http://www.globalbase.org/). This project originally began in 1999as a project about archiving old maps in the International Research Center for Japanese Studies .

Recently, similar technologies such as Google Maps, Google Earth and various other Earth Browsers are appearing. They are similar to GLOBALBASE in the sense that it is possible to display the entire Earth and place various search information there. GLOBALBASE is different from those initiatives in several aspects, however. First of all, one major difference is that other architectures prepare one single coordinate system that is used as the basis, and embed all other data in that coordinate system.

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