Reading Time: < 1 min When Microsoft launched Streetside a few days ago (a direct competitor to Google’s StreetView), I wondered how they could possibly catch up with the huge amount of coverage that Google already has in place. Their answer: Navteq. Navteq has vehicles on the road all the time, collecting road data (speed limits, bridge heights, etc). Microsoft […]
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Microsoft Integrates Photosynth into Virtual Earth
Reading Time: < 1 min 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 […]
All on board for the new “Canonical Tag” for you to use
Reading Time: < 1 min A new tool has been added to your arsenal to help fight against duplicate content on your site, and Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are all on board with it. Introducing the “Canonical Tag”. This new tag allows you to specify the desired URL for a page that might have multiple URLS. For example, you might […]
Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope finally has SpaceNavigator support
Reading Time: < 1 min When WorldWide Telescope came out earlier this year, it blew a lot of people away — including me. It’s a phenomenal program! However, it didn’t support the excellent SpaceNavigator device, making it much more difficult to use. I thought it was a bug at first, but it was simply not a supported device. Today 3Dconnexion […]
MapQuest is trying hard to hold on
Reading Time: < 1 min Despite being far behind in features, MapQuest has been remarkably resilient in holding onto their market share. Google Maps continues to catch up, but is still below half of the market share that MapQuest is holding. However, MapQuest continues to try to catch back up. Today they’ve released a new beta version of their site, […]
Big search engine news coming next week?
Reading Time: < 1 min TechCrunch has just hinted at a major search engine announcement next week. In this post, we read the following: Google also says “But we’re proud to have the most comprehensive index of any search engine.” That may be true today, but it probably won’t be true next week (check back here then). Google knows that […]
Trees and Highway Overpasses
Reading Time: 2 min 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 […]
Microsoft launches “ClearFlow” traffic on Live Maps
Reading Time: < 1 min 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 […]
More details revealed about Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope
Reading Time: < 1 min Robert Scoble has admitted that a demo of Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope a few weeks ago made him cry. A snippet: You drag around the sky. There’s Mars. There’s the big dipper. There’s Beetlejuice. Etc. It’s just like the star party you probably attended in college. But it has one difference between any telescope you’ve […]
Another big imagery/3D update for Virtual Earth
Reading Time: 2 min Microsoft just doesn’t play around. They’re back with another absolutely massive update, this one totaling around 27TB! I love the amount of 3D they continue to push out. It’s slightly lower quality than Google Earth, but the sheer volume of it more than compensates. Much of the new imagery is for cities that have new […]