Google Ocean?

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According to Wired magazine, Google is teaming up with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to produce detailed maps of the Earth's oceans, which will be retrievable online. As a preview, they're offering an image of the Pacific near Okinawa, Japan. Personally I think it looks quite promising:

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll88/guthobla/A2K/google-ocean.jpg

Your can read the Wired article here.

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Will this collaboration help to map the previously unmapped floor of the ocean? I don't know the exact number, I thought that a rather large portion of the Ocean floor is unmapped at this point.

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@Seed,

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Will this collaboration help to map the previously unmapped floor of the ocean?

Not directly I think, Seed. As I understand the article, the NOAA has ongoing projects to map the ocean floor anyway. It is now using Google to visualize their findings and publish them to the general public.

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@Thomas,

Leave it to the new Google Maps Ocean Scene to find the lost city of Atlantis. I mean they found Waldo already.

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Wow . . . yet another very cool article posted to the site this evening . . . good work Thomas . . .

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