Reading Time: < 1 min The Virtual Earth / Live Maps blog just pointed out how great Niagara Falls looks in Virtual Earth. I have to admit, it’s quite stunning. I thought I’d go a step further and compare it to the same shot in Google Earth. As you’ll see, there is no comparison. I have to imagine that Microsoft […]
Virtual Earth / Live Maps
Virtual Earth finding its way onto more consumer-oriented business sites
Reading Time: 2 min I’m finding more and more sites lately that are using Virtual Earth as their on-site mapping program. The latest is Bank of America (via the VE dev blog). It’s got a unique issue in that it claims to require that you enter your City, State and ZIP, but it appears that ZIP-only will work (as […]
Some Virtual Earth drawing tools
Reading Time: < 1 min Johannes Kebeck, Technology Specialist for Virtual Earth, has just released some drawing tools to make it easier to add lines and shapes inside of VE. You can find them here. It’s shame that something as simple as drawing basic shapes in still such a chore in VE — even this solution requires a bunch of […]
Want to help model a city?
Reading Time: < 1 min In an effort to get more cities modeled in 3D, Google has created a new category in the 3D Warehouse titled “Help Model a City“. They’re encouraging users such as yourself to go in there and help create some of these models. So far they have five cities listed — Ann Arbor, Michigan : Amherst, […]
Microsoft unveils “instant answer” for MSN.com and Live.com
Reading Time: < 1 min Following on the heels of both Google and Yahoo, Microsoft’s “Live” search now shows an interactive map as the top result if you search for a precise location (full story on their blog). While its noticeably later than Google or Yahoo’s implementation, I must give them credit for taking it a bit further than either […]
Microsoft and KML support
Reading Time: < 1 min Whether or not Microsoft’s Virtual Earth will ever support the KML format is becoming an interesting topic. Logic would seem to point to “yes”, but that’s not necessarily the case. This topic was brought up at the “birds of a feather” meeting at Where 2.0 last week (discussed here). Their response was not great. When […]
The state of Google Earth
Reading Time: 2 min This was going to be a pretty boring post, since Google hasn’t revealed much about Google Earth lately. I expected some big news last week at either Where 2.0 or the Google Developer Day and there was almost nothing said. It was quite a let down. Then this morning Google announced a huge image update! […]
The state of Virtual Earth
Reading Time: 2 min I thought I’d start things out on here by talking about some recent insights and improvements to each of the three main topics on this blog – Microsoft’s Virtual Earth, Google Maps and Google Earth. We’ll start with Virtual Earth. If you haven’t used it in a few months, you need to go check it […]