Open-Sourcing Google Earth Enterprise

Google has announced that Google Earth Enterprise (GEE) will be published on GitHub under the Apache2 license in March. GEE is an enterprise product that allows developers to build and host their own private maps and 3D globes. This release includes GEE Fusion, GEE Server, and GEE Portable Server source code. "Feedback is important to us and we’ve heard from our customers that GEE remains in-use in mission-critical applications. Many customers have not transitioned to other technologies. Open-sourcing GEE allows our customer community to continue to improve and evolve the project in perpetuity. Note that the Google Earth Enterprise Client, Google Maps JavaScript® API V3 and Google Earth API will not be open sourced. The Enterprise Client will continue to be made available and updated. However, since GEE Fusion and GEE Server are being open-sourced, the imagery and terrain quadtree implementations used in these products will allow third-party developers to build viewers that can consume GEE Server Databases." (Thanks to Paul Wise)

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