Google Summer of Code Blog posted an article, wherein they’ve mentioned about Hacking on touchEarth an application developed by Pawel Solyga, that allows you to control Google Earth using two finger gestures on multi-touch table. touchEarth uses the Google Earth COM API to control some of Google Earth’s features, while all the multi-touch screen events are sent to touchEarth from touchlib (or OpenTouch) using the TUIO protocol.

Google’s mobile platform alos showed a touch interface for a spinning globe, check this demos of Android (03:54).

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