Microsoft Virtual Earth team has added nearly 3.8 Terabytes worth of new satellite imagery, which can show you some high resolution bird’s eye view of cities across US and Europe.
The bird’s eye view looks awfully close and gives you a feeling as if you are flying on a chopper. However, I must complain that Virtual Earth takes endlessly long to render the map (in comparison with Google Earth). Check out the list of cities.
They’ve compiled a tour of Chicago, which takes you through architectural points of interests in Chicago. Give it a try. With this new imagery, Virtual Earth is trying to bite Google Earth
News: CyberNet
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wrote, on March 31st, 2007
The image quality looks great. Probably why it takes a long time to render. Nice find. I’m going to check this out.
wrote, on March 31st, 2007
Man the image is beautiful , btw does this feature India also .
wrote, on April 1st, 2007
[...] could be because they have just updated their database with 3.8 terabytes of data. It does render a little slowly but fast enough so its not really of note. Regardless of this, [...]
wrote, on April 1st, 2007
Microsoft tries to compete with Google in all fields. Quite interesting and beneficial for the consumers.
wrote, on April 4th, 2007
Its just like seeing live ….its better than Google earth and others.
wrote, on April 4th, 2007
Sorry, but I can’t take this seriously, I had (an admittedly) quick look and it seems ok. But it’s yet another “me too” product from microsoft.
It’s often said that microsoft has some of smartest software engineers in the business, I see very little evidence of this, why is it that MS never seems to innovate?
I guess it’s good that Google has a some competition