"With Keyhole, you can fly like a superhero from your computer at home to a street corner somewhere else in the world - or find a local hospital, map a road trip or measure the distance between two points," said Jonathan Rosenberg, vice president, Product Management. "This acquisition gives Google users a powerful new search tool, enabling users to view 3D images of any place on earth as well as tap a rich database of roads, businesses and many other points of interest. Keyhole is a valuable addition to Google's efforts to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." [1]
Keyhole represents the largest commercial imagery database online in 3D today. Covering over 80+ major metropolitan areas and thousands of individual cities, Keyhole's database includes access to millions of dollars worth of satellite imagery, aerial photography, elevation data, street vectors, business listings and other databases merged together and available for instant access. [2]
[1] Google Acquires Keyhole Corp, Mountain View - October 27, 2004 - Google Inc. today announced it acquired Keyhole Corp., a Mountain View, Calif.-based digital mapping company.
[2] What are Google's plans for Keyhole?
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/keyhole.html
