![]() Searches look across hundreds of millions of distinct archives and deliver their results via APIs and advanced analytics accessible through mobile devices while we walk down the street. ![]() based on our daily life patterns, calendar, and present location. ![]() We live in world today where the average citizen can zoom into the planet from Google Earth, walk down a virtual street in Google Street View, access live imagery and video on breaking events from remote regions via YouTube and Instagram, and search 100 petabyte indexes that learn and evolve to tailor themselves to hundreds of millions of individual users and even adjust the material returned. Not only present, but also one can travel in the past by gliding through Historical Imagery and navigate back in time. Since 2009, also now more feature rich, Google Ocean allows to zoom at the bottom of the ocean with underwater terrain data and view the three dimensional bathymetry beneath the sea waves. Since 2007, we also have Google Street View that comes with 360° panoramic views of streets and allows viewing parts and surroundings of Other variants are also available such as WorldWide Telescope (WWT) from Microsoft Research team and open source variant as Stellarium, a planetarium capable to run under Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. Not only Earth, but different celestial bodies of the universe can also be viewed using a feature called Google Sky. Both free and commercial versions are available with a variety of features. But that does not put any hindrance in visualizing from a holistic point of view with lots of data captured thus presenting minute details of the location. The metaphors available on Google Earth are not real time but may be 1-3 years old, as such, live or most recent changes may not be available on the maps.
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