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Google Earth Gets Political

Nicholas Carlson writes on internetnews.com:

Google today announced a Google Earth 2006 Elections Special layer for their popular satellite mapping product.

Google Earth product manager Chikai Ohazama told internetnews.com the new KML (Keyhole Markup Language) layer will draw lines for each different Congressional district.

In each district users will find red, white, and blue icons that open a window with a candidate list as well as links to Google News, Image, and Web searches for their names.

Spokesperson Megan Quinn said the Google Earth team is also working on bringing real time results to those windows on election night.

posted by Fergie @ 10/22/2006 09:29:00 PM