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Virtual Earth / Live Maps

Tons of new features in Virtual Earth

April 11, 2008

To go with the new ClearFlow traffic, Microsoft has just released a slew of new features for Virtual Earth. They include: Export collections to GPS using KML, GPX and GeoRSS. Improved 3D cities. Las Vegas, Dallas, Denver and Phoenix are now in “version 2″, which includes higher-res textures, more buildings and even rendered tress. Other [...]

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Microsoft launches “ClearFlow” traffic on Live Maps

April 11, 2008

Microsoft has just released “ClearFlow” traffic data on Live Maps, but it’s far more interesting than you might think. While it shows the colored traffic speeds in a similar manner as Yahoo, Google and Mapquest, it also goes much deeper. From Search Engine Land: In addition to real-time traffic data, the service offers traffic predictions [...]

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StreetView coming to Google Earth within a few weeks

March 31, 2008

According to Rafe Needleman of Webware, StreetView will be available inside of Google Earth “within a few weeks”. Rafe quotes an unnamed source with that info. He states that it’s not clear if this will be a public release or an internal testing release. If done smoothly, this could be very slick. It’ll be interesting [...]

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Some background on how Virtual Earth creates 3D buildings

March 31, 2008

The Virtual Earth 3D blog has a post today that explains in detail how they create each 3D city. From the article: Microsoft’s acquisition of Vexcel Corporation, a 20-year old provider of remote sensing solutions, provided the Virtual Earth team with a broad background in photogrammetry, geospatial data production, and digital elevation model (DEM) generation [...]

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Hybrid view coming to Virtual Earth’s Bird’s Eye imagery

March 26, 2008

On April 10, Microsoft plans to release Virtual Earth version 6.1. Among the enhancements: Enhanced experiences with bird’s eye view in 3D, and new bird’s eye hybrid view. Reverse geocoding for U.S. users. Walking directions for North America and European Union users. Traffic-based driving directions. New cross-browser support. Improved printing support for maps. That’s quite [...]

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March Imagery update for Virtual Earth

March 25, 2008

As always, it’s a huge update. This one totals over 42 TB! There was no new 3D data added, but a lot of ortho and a TON of new Bird’s Eye imagery. Here is the full list, or you can just go view it right now. Orthos USA Las Vegas, NV Denver, CO Phoenix DT, [...]

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New 3D and Birds Eye data in Virtual Earth

February 28, 2008

Not quite as big as their last few updates, but this one still has quite a bit. The list includes: New/Updated Birds Eye Cities in the US Etowah Co, AL Mobile Co, AL Monterey Co, CA Boulder Co Broomfield Co WashingtonDC. Cobb Co, GA De Kalb Co, GA Muscogee Co, GA Macon Co, IL Will [...]

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Microsoft’s answer to Google Earth Sky set to launch on February 27

February 19, 2008

According to TechCrunch, Microsoft is set to unveil a product called “Worldwide Telescope” on February 27. This product will be used through a Windows-only downloadable application. It sounds a whole lot like the “Sky Mode” in Google Earth. From the article: Users will be able to pan around the nighttime sky and zoom as far [...]

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Microsoft adds Caligari to Virtual Earth team

February 7, 2008

Microsoft has just announced that they have added Caligari, makers of the 3D modeling software trueSpace, to their to their Virtual Earth team. Plans for implementing Caligari into Virtual Earth have not been revealed, but it certainly has a lot of potential. One item that I’ve seen mentioned a few times already is the possiblity [...]

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Two big customers move to Virtual Earth

February 5, 2008

Microsoft has just announced that two big customers have migrated over to Virtual Earth. From their site: Yellowbook, The largest independent yellow pages publisher, has migrated their application from Mapquest to Virtual Earth in order to take advantage of VE’s advanced rooftop geocoding and maps. Windermere released Property Point 3 and in so doing migrated [...]

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