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July 2007

Virtual Earth releases “hill shaded” 2D maps

July 5, 2007

As part of their huge update yesterday, Microsoft released a new map style for 2D maps called “hill shaded”. This helps give the appearance of altitude to flat maps. A great example of it can be seen at Mount Rainier National Park. The cool thing is that this is not aerial photography — that’s still [...]

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How Google Earth [Really] Works

July 4, 2007

Stefan at Ogle Earth point out a fascinating article about what really makes Google Earth tick. It’s written by Avi Bar-Ze’ev, who helped develop Google Earth back when it was still known as Keyhole. It’s a very tech-heavy article about how you go from having terabytes worth of imagery to then rendering it all on [...]

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Massive updates to Virtual Earth

July 4, 2007

Microsoft just announced a ton of new updates for Virtual Earth. This includes: Updated road/hybrid map styling for the entire world Hillshaded roads for the entire world 3Di/Boulder hi-res orthos for 44 cities in 10 states, along with a bit in Canada and some in France. New or expanded 3D models in 47 cities, along [...]

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Easily Import Addresses into Google Earth

July 3, 2007

John Gardiner at Using Google Earth points out a new tutorial on Google’s site that explains how to batch import addresses into Google Earth. I don’t have a set of data that needs to be done, but it looks quite slick nonetheless.

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Virtual Earth finding its way onto more consumer-oriented business sites

July 3, 2007

I’m finding more and more sites lately that are using Virtual Earth as their on-site mapping program. The latest is Bank of America (via the VE dev blog). It’s got a unique issue in that it claims to require that you enter your City, State and ZIP, but it appears that ZIP-only will work (as [...]

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