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Virtual Earth / Live Maps being rebranded to Bing

May 28, 2009

As you’ve likely heard, Microsoft has unveiled it’s new Bing search engine.  As part of that rebranding process, other Microsoft applications are getting renamed.  Of particular interest to us are the new names for their mapping products.
Live Search Maps will now be simply called “Bing Maps”, and the Virtual Earth platform will now be known [...]

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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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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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WorldWide Telescope now available for download

May 13, 2008

Two days ago we told you it’d be here this month, and it’s out already!  As reported by Ogle Earth and the Virtual Earth Developer Blog, you can go download it right now.
Some initial thoughts:

It really is a stunning tool.
It has SpaceNavigator support (sort of), but it tends to freak out as soon as you [...]

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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 [...]

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Google Earth 4.3 thoughts, screenshots and a video

April 16, 2008

Google Earth 4.3 is just starting to become available. You probably won’t find it through the normal pages yet, but the Google Earth Blog found a clever loophole to allow you to get it now — simply visit this page and you can grab it.
My initial thoughts:
StreetView is neat, but not very useful. [...]

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