

Terravision is a networked virtual representation of the earth based on satellite images, aerial shots, altitude data and architectural data collected by the company in 1993. It also lost on appeal at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 2017. It lost in May 2016 as the jury of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware found in favor of Google.

In 2014, ART+COM filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming its 2001 product Google Earth infringed the 1995 patent rights of Terravision. Development of the project was supported by the Deutsche Post (now Deutsche Telekom). Terravision is a 3D mapping software developed in 1993 by the German company ART+COM in Berlin as a "networked virtual representation of the Earth based on satellite images, aerial shots, altitude data and architectural data". Terravision installation at NTT InterCommunication Center, 1998
