Google Earth Reverse Engineering
"Reverse engineering" seems a bit pointless when Google has open sourced the code for Google Earth Enterprise:<p><a href="https://github.com/google/earthenterprise" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/google/earthenterprise</a><p>(Update: The client was <i>not</i> open sourced, just the server.)<p>However, this doesn't give you carte blanche to use Google's own imagery:<p><a href="https://maps.google.com/help/terms_maps.html" rel="nofollow">https://maps.google.com/help/terms_maps.html</a>