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Virtual Earth / Live Maps

Microsoft Integrates Photosynth into Virtual Earth

May 7, 2009

This could be pretty cool. Microsoft’s remarkable Photosynth software now is playing nicely with Virtual Earth. From their press release:
Photosynth software analyzes digital photographs and generates a 3-D model by “stitching” the photos together. These models, or “synths,” can now be viewed using Silverlight technology across multiple platforms. Virtual Earth brings together features, functionality and [...]

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More fresh imagery for Virtual Earth

April 29, 2009

Another imagery update for Virtual Earth. They’ve still not released any new 3D “version 2″ cities (WHY??), but they keep pushing new imagery out at a good pace.
This update covers “only” 9TB of data, but they brag that it covers over 1 million square kilometers of Earth. That sounds nice, but I wonder how it [...]

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Another large imagery update for Virtual Earth

March 27, 2009

Microsoft has just pushed out another large imagery update for Virtual Earth. While it’s only 21TB (a huge number for sure, but smaller than previous releases), it adds new imagery to parts of 63 different countries. Quite impressive!
You can view the full list of updates here.
I just wanna know when we’re gonna see more 3D [...]

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Another big Virtual Earth imagery update

March 4, 2009

Microsoft has pushed out another big imagery update for Virtual Earth — this one with about 55TB of data. Quite impressive!
This covers most types of imagery in many areas around the world. A detailed list can be found here.
My question is: what’s up with the 3D cities? They simply haven’t been adding any more. They [...]

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Microsoft releases massive imagery update for Virtual Earth

February 4, 2009

Virtual Earth has been quiet lately, but Microsoft has just released a TON of new imagery for it. No new features like Google Earth’s sweet update, and still no new 3D buildings, but the amount of imagery is quite impressive.
New Bird’s Eye imagery in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Sweden, the UK and [...]

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Digital Earth products with Windows 7

January 10, 2009

I downloaded Windows 7 on my laptop tonight (dual boot with XP) and started testing the various digital earth products. So far, so good!
Google Earth went without a hitch. It runs very well, too!
The Google Earth plug-in worked perfectly as well.
Google Maps worked, as did StreetView.
Virtual Earth installed flawlessly and worked briefly, then locked up [...]

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Huge imagery release for Virtual Earth

November 6, 2008

Microsoft has rolled out another enormous imagery release for Virtual Earth. Details can be found here, but the quick version includes:
Orthos

Spain
Japan

Obliques (Bird’s Eye)

United States
Japan
Australia
Canada
United Kingdom
Germany
Austria
Luxembourg

Sadly, once again, there doesn’t appear to be any new 3D buildings. C’mon Microsoft — those “version 2″ cities are amazing and we want more of them!

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Virtual Earth 6.2 released, with stunning clouds

September 25, 2008

Virtual Earth 6.2 has been released, with a whole host of new features. Among them:

New imagery — ”Richer bird’s eye” and new 3D imagery, but I can’t find a list of what’s been updated.
Weather integration — Real-time clouds (see more below)
Localized maps — English, German, French, Italian and Spanish.
Near-matching — Helps find locations with alternate [...]

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Virtual Earth update time

September 18, 2008

Just a few days ago I mentioned that I hadn’t seen an imagery update for Virtual Earth in a while, and now we have one.
This one reportedly has a staggering 48TB worth of imagery, but doesn’t cover that many places. The list:
Orthos

Yakima, WA
Springfield, MO
Spokane, WA
Portland, ME
Grand Rapids, MI
Billings, MT
Minneapolis, MN (UltraCam Refresh)
Seattle, WA (UltraCam Refresh)
Las [...]

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The energy costs of Hurricane Ike

September 12, 2008

Brian Timoney has made some nice updates to GulfImpact.com ahead of Hurricane Ike. Not only does it give you the location and path of the storm, but it shows all of the affected oil wells in the Gulf, broken down by company. He uses Virtual Earth to power it.
I’ve heard a lot of news stories [...]

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