Post #1265979

2024-08-14 07:32 UTC

@nickrsan I don't think GEE can ever be profitable. It's an amazing niche, and Google are leveraging GEE as an analysis/insight tier over their maps platform. But look at what made headlins for GEE: environment, climate, humanitarian. There's no money in it. So becuase it's not a standalone website, it makes slightly harder to adopt. And once the corporates will see the bottom lines, they'll pull the plug. Google have a horrìd track record in this regard, I'm not an optimist.

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@gspeed0689@mapstodon.space 2024-08-14 07:57

@hareldan @nickrsan I was at a remote sensing event with a representative from GEE a couple months ago, they quoted GEE adds about a petabyte of new data every month. Also, from talking to other conference goers I got the feeling that nobody trusts GEE to stick around, which prompts the question as to why researchers are using the tool if they can't count on the service to stick around, or what happens when GEE changes something on the backend and reproduction would yield different results.

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@nickrsan@mapstodon.space 2024-08-14 13:26

@hareldan yeah, I agree with all of those points. Honestly I am surprised it's still here. They announced Maps Engine at the same time as Earth Engine, but shut it down a few years later. We spent the decade cautiously using Earth Engine, thinking it could disappear at any time.

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