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Microsoft demonstrates stunning new Bing Map features

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    EKRIUQ
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    Can't really see where they have improved on Google Earth' features. I always take these presentations with a pinch of salt, as it's easy to manipulate a street in San Francisco but time will tell.


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    DarrenMSP
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    Was amazed, as a fan of the photosynth technology behind some of this, its great to see some innovation out of Microsoft on the Maps front.

    I love the streetside overlays, image if you had a collection of old photos of a street in your town. If you tagged them, you would be able to recreate it on streetside... be amazing if they started here in Ireland. My local photo club has 100's of pictures of the town from 1940 and 50's.

    I'd love to see it on streetside!
    EKRIUQ wrote: »
    Can't really see where they have improved on Google Earth' features.

    Really? Where in your Google Earth does it have?

    Matching photos straight from Flickr onto streetview imagery
    Live matching of video
    Drag the mouse skyward to see the current sky (And yes WWT has more images and resolution than Google Sky)

    EKRIUQ wrote: »
    I always take these presentations with a pinch of salt, as it's easy to manipulate a street in San Francisco but time will tell.

    You can use it now - http://www.bing.com/maps

    Click "try beta" (could say preview either)


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    google maps now microsoft too

    in other news the other big search provider yahoo have let http://openstreetmap.org use their aerial photography

    regarding image resolution , I'm still mad at National Geographic for their CD box set of every issue, they did them at 150 dpi which borders on unreadable
    :mad: this stuff will get better in time


    must look up that link to the app that searches for photos of a location you suggest and then photostiches them together - they did it for Notre Dame (SP) - as more cameraphones have GPS built in this could get very interesting

    cba looking it up but isn't there a 3D view of Westport online somewhere


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    DarrenMSP
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    must look up that link to the app that searches for photos of a location you suggest and then photostiches them together - they did it for Notre Dame (SP) - as more cameraphones have GPS built in this could get very interesting

    Ya hardly mean this at 3.40 - http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosynth.html
    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    cba looking it up but isn't there a 3D view of Westport online somewhere

    Yeah, its a Google Earth yolk - http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2008/01/westport_in_ireland_gets_3d_in_goog.html

    westport.jpg


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