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A comment on Google Earth 3D Models Now Available as Open Standard (GlTF).

Re:Google Earth 3D Models Now Available as Open Standard (GlTF) by prhrb on Thursday May 11, 2023 @01:56AM (#35898199)
Title is misleading
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Re:Google Earth 3D Models Now Available as Open Standard (GlTF) by vore on Thursday May 11, 2023 @02:07AM (#35898287)
In what way? https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/tile/use-re...

  Photorealistic 3D Tiles are in the OGC standard glTF format, meaning you can use any renderer that supports the OGC 3D Tiles spec to build your 3D visualizations.
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Re:Google Earth 3D Models Now Available as Open Standard (GlTF) by janosdebugs on Thursday May 11, 2023 @04:09AM (#35899276)
Not the OP, but the editorialized title (please don't do that) seems to suggest that it's freely available, which it is not.
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Re:Google Earth 3D Models Now Available as Open Standard (GlTF) by bilekas on Thursday May 11, 2023 @03:01AM (#35898718)
Sorry but how exactly? There is another comment too that hints towards this sentiment but I really don't know how you can mistake "open standard".
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Re:Google Earth 3D Models Now Available as Open Standard (GlTF) by pasmafaute on Thursday May 11, 2023 @05:43AM (#35899895)
I understand many people are familiar with what "open standard" means. There are lots of other people that are somewhat new to the phrase.

Consider these related terms:

- Open Source

- Open Data

- Open Standard

For people who encounter these terms in the listed order, "Open Standard" may or may not be understood by analogy. Some people will assume that it also includes the concepts of Open Source and Open Data. It does not.

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