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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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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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OS independent 3D map of Stockholm released

May 29, 2008

Hitta.se, a Swedish search and mapping site, has just released a 3D map of Stockholm that works in virtually any browser in any operating system. The technology is powered in part by C3 Technologies, who explain their software as follows: The technology is based on high-resolution aerial photography with carefully calibrated cameras. For every picture, [...]

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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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StreetView coming to Italy

April 20, 2008

Google StreetView cars have been spotted in Italy, indicating that StreetView data will be coming soon. The interesting part is that these don’t seem to be normal StreetView cars. These come equipped with a handful of SICK laser scanners. What for? Educating Silicon does a good job of breaking down the question. From their post: [...]

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KML is now an international standard

April 14, 2008

As reported by the Google LatLong Blog, KML has now officially become an OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) standard. According to Google, there are tens of millions of KML documents available online, hosted on over 100,000 unique domain names. The number of files isn’t a huge surprise, but 100,000 unique domains seem like a ton! As [...]

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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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Yahoo updates imagery for most of the United States

April 12, 2008

Not to be outdone by Google and Microsoft, Yahoo has updated their imagery for most of the United States. While it’s still simply 2D maps, they’ve updated a ton of imagery. Since it’s inception, Yahoo has added over 500 cities across the world, but today has seen the biggest change ever in their US data. [...]

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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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