French Competition for Google Earth Launches with a Bang ... and Crashes back to Earth

So far Geoportal is a obvious disgrace. This is the French Google Killer? It was a lot of big talk. Disgraceful, boastful, arrogant... French.

As with anything, trial and errors have built some of the most wonderful feats,,,it's not about how many times you fail, but how many times you pick up the pieces. Hats off to anyone that takes on the giant.

Even though I cannot yet access the site.. I do hope it lives up to its promises. It may have some birthing pains.. but I know the French will bring out a first rate product!! Do look forward to it, nice to have choices instead of being dependant upon one source.. especially when google earth not so great also.. for many of the places I want to check out I might as well just use my old atlas :)

Hi !

I am french and really ashamed of geoportail.fr and even more about the announce about "french are better than google's team" and so on...
Sorry !

Of course the people (journalist ?) don't know what they talk about except that this is a main government project, so they don't ask themselves if it's really true...

Go and see geoportail.blogspot.com a critism blog to see pictures about the geoportail, comparisons with Google and other french web-map, and laugh...

France is still late on Internet, have a look at our "minitel" that was the concurrent of Internet for years and you'll understand what politics ear about the web...

I personally hold my hat off to anyone trying, even thinking of, challenging what Google does.

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