Google’s open source code has a new home –*opensource.google.com.*Open Source has been at the core of Google since its beginning, and the company is a big backer of open source projects.
With opensource.google.com*all of Google’s Open Source contributions can be easily accessed in one location – including all the “Location & Maps” projects/libraries that Google has contributed to (24 as of 10th April 2017). Here’s the link to the “Location & Maps” landing page.*Google even wrote a “How Google does open source” document, which is really interesting in its own right.[h=2]Google Earth Enterprise[/h]Google Earth Enterprise*is*probably the most famous among the repositories that Google has open sourced in recent times. Earth Enterprise*was deprecated back in 2015, but Google decided to open source it since many customers continue to use it actively.[h=2]Open Location Code[/h]Interestingly, one of the projects that*Google had Open-sourced is Open Location Code*– a service that turns addresses into*so-called*“plus codes” that are easier to use than latitude and longitude for places where street addresses don’t exist or don’t work well. *Ahem, isn’t that exactly*what3words*is for?[h=2]Marzipano[/h]Marzipano is a cool media viewer that lets you incorporate 360° street-view like images for web browsers and mobile devices. The cool thing about Marzipano is that you can easily convert your panoramas into the street-view images that the demo below visualizes (Marzipano tool).
There are quite a few interesting projects in the open source projects including Cartographer in Google’s new Open Source homepage – take a look (Google Open Source).
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There are quite a few interesting projects in the open source projects including Cartographer in Google’s new Open Source homepage – take a look (Google Open Source).
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