Bonsoir,

Il me semble utile de rappeler qu’il n’est pas nécessaire de surdimensionner des serveurs informatiques juste pour faire face à l’afflux lié à la nouveauté…

La fréquentation se tassera d’elle-même sur le long terme.

Quant à concurrencer Google Earth, c’est :

a) – parfaitement exact sur la précision offerte, puisque les modélisation sont réalisées à partir d’imagerie aérienne

b) – totalement faux en ce qui concerne l’étendue du territoire couvert, puisque Geoportail n’a pas vocation (dans un premier temps tout du moins), à couvrir la totalité de notre planète.

Amitiés,

Didier (blog)

Thanks for ther tip! I’ve been eagerly waiting for a ‘quality Google Earth France’ for my U.S. clients who want to show off their European properties to their friends. Google is still disappointing, but Géoportail looks like it could use some tuning up too

yup, didier – they really should have expected a burst of traffic but sadly, no. and geoportail doesn’t cover the whole earth, you’re right but neither does google earth (there is a lot of missing areas). if the french portail knows better, they will hopefully expand their access to the rest of the world to indeed compete with google earth. that will probably take them approximately 8 thousand years, give or take a few hundred

frog, isn’t that the first thing people look for? their homes! i haven’t looked for mine yet but i’m dying to see the aerial view of my area. i sincerely hope they get some server power.

It’s a shame. I really can’t believe that the president of France was promoting that site launch. A national IT catastrophe for France!

I have started a thread with some news links at performancing.com: Fiasco: France creates a website launch catastrophe Maybe somebody want to comment?