Google Earth Takes Down Fire Agency
I could find no other mention of this incident on the Net based on a quick look. It is documented by Eric Lundquist writing at Publish.com. The article notes Google’s new spreadsheet is not appropriate for business users. In his discussion he cites this incident where “Google Earth nearly took down a fire agency on the SF peninsula”:
The designer who wrote the program decided to store the map cache in the users profile. While it’s great for home users, corporate users who have roaming profiles suddenly had a profile that was 20GB to download. The bandwidth consumed by users logging on choked the network. Again, only tech support via e-mail, even after calling Google directly and pleading for live assistance for a public safety organization.
by Adena Schutzberg on 06/08 at 06:41 AM |
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