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Virtual Earth map control 6.2 coming in a few weeks

September 10, 2008

According to Nate Irwin, version 6.2 of the Virtual Earth map control is coming on September 22nd. This new map control brings a lot of great features to the table, including landmark-based directions and real-time weather in 3D. Here’s my big question, though — where’s the new imagery? Unless I’ve missed something, they haven’t added [...]

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The July update for Virtual Earth is out

July 22, 2008

It’s not nearly as large as some recent Virtual Earth updates, but there’s still quite a bit packed into this one. No new 3D cities that I know of, but a bunch of new imagery. New orthos in a handful of places in the US, all of Austria, and various cities in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, [...]

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Various improvements to Live Maps overseas

July 3, 2008

A handful of new features have just been rolled out for the international versions of Live Maps. Live Search Maps China has just had a handful of additions and improvements, including: Real-time Traffic in Beijing Send-to-Mobile for free for local search and transit routing result Transit data refresh for existing 11 cities including 3 new [...]

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Imagery update for Virtual Earth

June 25, 2008

While not nearly as big as their last update, Virtual Earth has about 20TB of new imagery now in place. It includes quite a bit of new imagery in France, as well as various places around the world. Sadly, it doesn’t appear that they’d added any more “version 2″ cities this month. I’m dying to [...]

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A ton of new imagery for Virtual Earth, and a few more updated cities

June 5, 2008

To go with the new “version 2″ 3D data for Miami, Microsoft has updated Vienna and Seattle. In addition to that, they’ve added a ton of new imagery. I normally like to list all of the updated areas, but it’s simply too much. You can view it all on this page. The total amount of [...]

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Miami is now “version 2″ in Virtual Earth

June 3, 2008

About two months after the first four “version 2″ cities were released, Microsoft has just unveiled Miami 2.0. Like the other four cities, it features a massive increase in the number of buildings, along with a whole bunch of 3D trees. According to the Virtual Earth 3D blog, Miami now has 46,344 3D buildings (up [...]

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More details about yesterday’s Virtual Earth update

May 1, 2008

We mentioned it yesterday, but now we have details of the imagery update in Virtual Earth, thanks VE: An Evangelist’s Blog. I had hoped to see more of their awesome “version 2.0″ 3D cities added, but no new ones were added this time. Still, it’s a very impressive update! Here’s part of the list: Microsoft [...]

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Virtual Earth Imagery Update

April 30, 2008

Microsoft has apparently just added 22TB worth of new imagery to Virtual Earth. The only nice tidbit we know so far is that Australia finally has some Birds Eye imagery. Assuming this is accurate, I expect a detailed announcement from Microsoft shortly.

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Google Earth vs. Virtual Earth in Denver

April 16, 2008

Denver has emerged as one of the flagship cities for both Google Earth and Virtual Earth. Google Earth has built a ton of 3D models in the city, and Virtual Earth has already converted it to “version 2.0″ with over 100,000 3D models (as well as 300,000 trees). Therefore, I thought it’d be a good [...]

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Trees and Highway Overpasses

April 12, 2008

I’ve long felt that two things would need to happen to get to the next level in 3D imagery — trees and highway overpasses. Since one of the neat features in Google Earth is the ability to fly a route, having proper overpasses would make things look much better. The latest version of Virtual Earth [...]

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