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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 [...]

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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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