Over than past few months, the Microsoft Virtual Earth team has been preparing the service for one of it's biggest updates since the release. What's the definition of "one of it's biggest"? Well it's over 48TB of new and improved imagery. Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth technical evangelist at Microsoft, announced that the service has updated it's global vector data for the majority of it's tile sets.The update includes multilingual tile sets for all zoom levels, localized tile sets for Japan, and all Bird's Eye imagery has been updated with new road map labels. Microsoft has also added tons of new imagery data for the following countries: Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Herzegovina, Hungary, Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
Does your localized view look any different?
View: Microsoft Virtual Earth
Google Earth is fine for cities, but for rural areas it is useless.
Google Earth is more versatile than Virtual Earth but it requires a stand alone application.
i find 3D buildings and cities in Virtual Earth to be alot better looking than Google Earth but the uses are limited.
What does Google Earth & MS Virtual Earth use?
Google is working on them more than Microsoft.
That said, the bird's eye view of my area is updated enough to show my motor home and greenhouse I built last year.
Last edited by nunjabusiness on 02 Jan 2009 - 13:59
It's a recentish image, within the last year.. I can see my lil sisters trampoline in my mums back garden
Very clear
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