A couple days ago, CNN was broadcasting news about the horrific weather in the Midwest. Well, it turns out they have a new option for illustrating their news stories with maps and imagery – Microsoft Virtual Earth.
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Are you kidding me? 69.2 Terabytes?? I was once asked at a show how Microsoft handles so much data when transferring it over the Internet to the data centers. New 3D models (Version 2 of the processing software).
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The long awaited Microsoft Worldwide Telescope is now available on the web! Start exploring the galaxy, the universe and yes, even the Virtual Earth!
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There’s a new experience on Bing Maps that was just quietly added but is actually pretty amazing. You can take a recorded flyover of Bing Maps 3D for a number of cities, and they look amazing!
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Virtual Earth will be featured in the Microsoft booth at The National Association of Broadcaster’s Conference (NAB) in Las Vegas, NV starting April 14.
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27+ TB of imagery have just been added to Virtual Earth 3D Cities
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The British Broadcast Corporation has agreed to use Virtual Earth. The plane crash at Heathrow was detailed in this article on the BBC News web site. The article included many illustrations about the accident and the plane itself, but also included a map of the area highlighting the points of interest around the effected area. This allows their readers to get a better understanding of exactly where the plane stopped, where the plane touched down...
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I can’t read this article, but some of my cohort here in Redmond can. The folks at ZOL (CNET) have rated Live Search Maps China higher than both Google Maps China and Baidu Maps. ZOL specified that Live Search Maps China was better because of the “superior user interface, integration with local search result, personalization and bus transit.”
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The latest release of imagery and photogrammetrics includes 36.3 TB of photography and models of 58 new cities worldwide!
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We broke up the August release (in case you were wondering why there was only oblique {bird’s eye} imagery in the last release). Yep, more imagery – we know you love it!
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