France launched its own map service
With the support of the French government, a website has been opened with satellite photos of the whole territory of France, and these images have better resolution than Google Earth . Is the confrontation between France and Google going on?
Recall that this is not the first time that the French authorities initiate the creation of online services, alternative counterparts from Google. For example, in March 2005, French President Jacques Chirac called on European leaders to fight American cultural hegemony on the Internet. According to Chirac, the main threat is the Google project to digitize libraries. European leaders agreed to finance an alternative project based on the French digital library Gallica .
At the beginning of this year, it became known that the search engine Quaero was being created in France, which in the future could become the most advanced in the world. Developers create not just a search site, but a whole set of tools for language recognition and text translation, speech and image recognition, video segmentation, text indexing, processing of requests in natural languages, etc.
Combating the hegemony of American culture has been one of the main priorities of French politics since the end of World War II. Currently, the country has many laws that protect the national recording industry, publishing and film industry.
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So the new map service GeoPortail is also positioned as an alternative to Google Earth and Google Maps . The best scientists from the National Geographic Institute worked on it. Satellite images cover almost the entire territory of France, as well as its numerous colonies around the globe with a resolution of about 0.5 meters per pixel. The web interface is modeled on Google Maps using Ajax technology.
In Google Maps, only American lands are represented in high resolution, which roughly corresponds to the French map portal. Territories of other countries of the world were filmed quite badly. Recently, Google announced a fourfold increase in resolution, so now the most densely populated areas of the world are represented on Google Maps with a resolution of just under 1 meter per pixel.
Recall that this is not the first time that the French authorities initiate the creation of online services, alternative counterparts from Google. For example, in March 2005, French President Jacques Chirac called on European leaders to fight American cultural hegemony on the Internet. According to Chirac, the main threat is the Google project to digitize libraries. European leaders agreed to finance an alternative project based on the French digital library Gallica .
At the beginning of this year, it became known that the search engine Quaero was being created in France, which in the future could become the most advanced in the world. Developers create not just a search site, but a whole set of tools for language recognition and text translation, speech and image recognition, video segmentation, text indexing, processing of requests in natural languages, etc.
Combating the hegemony of American culture has been one of the main priorities of French politics since the end of World War II. Currently, the country has many laws that protect the national recording industry, publishing and film industry.
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So the new map service GeoPortail is also positioned as an alternative to Google Earth and Google Maps . The best scientists from the National Geographic Institute worked on it. Satellite images cover almost the entire territory of France, as well as its numerous colonies around the globe with a resolution of about 0.5 meters per pixel. The web interface is modeled on Google Maps using Ajax technology.
In Google Maps, only American lands are represented in high resolution, which roughly corresponds to the French map portal. Territories of other countries of the world were filmed quite badly. Recently, Google announced a fourfold increase in resolution, so now the most densely populated areas of the world are represented on Google Maps with a resolution of just under 1 meter per pixel.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4132/
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