I wonder what was the reason behind this.
Another thing I realised that I never had this API in any of my projects requirements, is there any important apps that use it other than information visualisation?
Another thing I realised that I never had this API in any of my projects requirements, is there any important apps that use it other than information visualisation?
This marketing video of theirs has some examples of the stuff we did with the Earth API:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl2HWhPEpIU
One very frustrating thing was that several of the interactive tools I built duplicated features that were available in the Earth desktop client but won't exposed through the API: line drawing, image placement, etc.
But it was clear even back then in 2009-2010 that the Earth API wasn't getting much attention within Google - rare updates with few new features added - it felt very much like somebody's 20% project. So we didn't wait for Google to add those features but built them from scratch.