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  2. Brian McClendon - Wikipedia

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    Brian A McClendon (born 1964) is an American software executive, engineer, and inventor. [1] He was a co-founder and angel investor in Keyhole, Inc., a geospatial data visualization company that was purchased by Google in 2004 [2] [3] to produce Google Earth.

  3. Google Earth - Wikipedia

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    Google Earth was released for Android on February 22, 2010, [62] and on iOS on October 27, 2008. [63] [64] The mobile versions of Google Earth can make use of multi-touch interfaces to move on the globe, zoom or rotate the view, and allow to select the current location. An automotive version of Google Earth was made available in the 2010 Audi ...

  4. History of the mapping of California - Wikipedia

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    Whitney organized the first comprehensive survey of California, and the first complete topographic maps of the state were completed under him. Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in California is named after him. The State Mining Bureau was established in 1880, and the position of State Geologist was changed to State Mineralogist.

  5. Burial vault (enclosure) - Wikipedia

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    A burial vault (also known as a burial liner, grave vault, and grave liner) is a container, formerly made of wood or brick but more often today made of metal or concrete, that encloses a coffin to help prevent a grave from sinking. Wooden coffins (or caskets) decompose, and often the weight of earth on top of the coffin, or the passage of heavy ...

  6. Coffin - Wikipedia

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    A coffin shop in Macau A Universal Casket sales kiosk within a U.S. Costco warehouse retail store in California. Traditionally, in the Western world, a coffin was made, when required, by the village carpenter, who would frequently manage the whole funeral. The design and workmanship would reflect the skills of that individual carpenter, with ...

  7. Google Street View coverage - Wikipedia

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    The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami, and New York City. By the ...

  8. 50 Times People Found Such Strange Things On Google Earth ...

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    Meanwhile, as of 2020, around a billion people use Google Maps, launched in 2005, every month. #13 Another Crashed Plane, This Time A Bomber From The Second World War I Think. Found Between Russia ...

  9. Natural burial - Wikipedia

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    California Most of the 32-acre (130,000 m 2) Fernwood Burial Ground, adjacent to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in Mill Valley, California, is set aside for natural burial, with no tombstones or caskets. Purissima Cemetery [77] is a natural burial cemetery located south of Half Moon Bay, California. Florida