France Web site to Compete With Google Earth

Offering more detail than Google Earth

[herb]

"France unveiled a Web site [geoportail.fr...] on Friday that allows people to access detailed satellite images of the country and said it offered more detail of its territory than Google Earth"

"President Jacques Chirac stressed the need for France to have such a site, which will allow Internet users to view aerial photos and maps, saying the state had to be at the cutting edge of modern technology"

I have only been getting time-outs from the "geoportail" site

CNN [edition.cnn.com]

[henry0]

I do speak FR, just did a few G.fr search
It was launched AM FR time
but the server couldn't handle it!

[jchampliaud]

but the server couldn't handle it!

There was some fanfare about this on French radio today. I tried and counldn't get on. Not the best of starts.

[lawman]

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