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More aerial views; National Geographic app; Google Maps for the indoors

January 23, 2010

A few cool things to point you toward today: More Cities get “Aerial View” in Google Maps — Portland, OR and Sacramento and Oakland, CA all have new “bird’s eye” imagery from Google. National Geographic launches iPhone app — It allows a variety of mapping sources, styles and other cool stuff. Micello Launches “Google Maps [...]

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Bing Maps launches a ton of new features

December 2, 2009

Microsoft has been playing catch-up to Google in the mapping world for a while.  Most of their “new” features are things that Google has had for a while.  Today they caught up with a few more, and even surpassed Google with a few of them. You can read the full list of new items on [...]

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A ghost town from space

August 24, 2009

Earth is Square has a neat post today about viewing Centralia, Pennsylanvia using fresh Bird’s Eye imagery on Bing Maps.  Centralia was an active town of about 1000 residents back in the early 1980′s, but now is home to only nine people.  The reason is due to an underground coal fire that’s been burning since [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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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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