MSN Virtual Earth vs Google Earth APIs comScore Search Engine Rankings: Google Up, Double Digit Growth for MSN Live Non-featured cities need a little tweaking. MSN City Guides has undergone a makeover and the "after" shot displays Live Search and...
Now, Microsoft is integrating the product to its Virtual Earth. The integration of Microsoft Photosynth into Virtual Earth marks an important step in enabling businesses to use Photosynth in a relevant, customer-friendly way," said Jeff Kelisky...
Less than a week after Microsoft released updates to Live Maps and Virtual Earth 3D, Google announces updates to its Google Earth product. Besides adding thousands of buildings contributed by people around the world, they've added dozens of photo...
Microsoft has announced an update to their Live Maps and Virtual Earth 3D. According to the Virtual Earth Team blog, the update involved a bigger release than originally planned. Improved 3D cities. There are 11 major updates including:
EveryScape, launched last month, is the latest 3-D mapping play that's part Google Street View and part Microsoft Virtual Earth 3-D. How about a company that bursts out of the gates with a mapping product built around big colorful three-dimensional...
Virtual Earth Expands 3-D to Include NYC, Screenwerk Google Adds Neighborhood SearchGoogle has added a neighborhood search capability for 50 U.S.cities, catching up with sites like Ask.com, Trulia and Yelp.
Accordingly, the Virtual Earth 3-D platform will have well over 100 cities by the end of Q2 next year. When Microsoft launched its Live Local/Virtual Earth 3-D platform earlier this week, the memorable quote from Virtual Earth GM Stephen Lawler was...
Windows Live Local Gets "Virtual Earth" 3-D Cities Tomorrow Microsoft will bring dramatic 3-D mapping to the browser window. Windows Live is set to launch photorealistic 3-D imagery for the "urban core" of 15 U.S.cities: San Francisco, San Jose...
Live Local Gets "Virtual Earth" 3-D Cities New 3D Maps (Beta) from Microsoft: Windows Live Local Gets “Virtual Earth” 3-D Windows Live is set to launch photorealistic 3-D imagery for the "urban core" of 15 U.S.cities: San Francisco, San Jose...
MSN Virtual Earth became Windows Live Local in December 2005 and gained the bird's eye images. The ads available within the Virtual Earth 3-D experience are created using a combination of technologies from Virtual Earth, Massive Inc.technology, and...
Virtual Earth is the technology platform that supports WLL, the consumer destination. Vexcel also makes an ultra-high resolution digital camera for aerial photography.A few months ago, Steven Lawler, GM of Microsoft Virtual Earth lead a conference...
PropertyShark also says that it has data on every property in the markets it currently serves (17 cities), not just homes for sale or rentals. Even though the world is now much more complicated for both buyers and sellers, the richness and...
Zillow, the real estate portal I wrote about several weeks ago, has added birds-eye aerial photography from Microsoft's Virtual Earth to complement its maps and own satellite images of U.S.neighborhoods (here's an example).
However, we've learned via this MSN Virtual Earth Team Blog post that imagery is now available for the Detroit are, home of the Super Bowl this Sunday, Motown music, and the city where I earned my MLIS degree at Wayne St.
A Virtual Earth Blog post points out that they're working with LoopNet, a provider of commercial real estate data. If you feel like wandering the streets of Paris and other cities in France and Spain, take a look at the street level imagery from...
This Virtual Earth Blog post from about a week ago points out that they're working with LoopNet, a provider of commercial real estate data. Btw, if you feel like wandering the streets of Paris and other cities in France and Spain, take a look at...
YACFA: Yet Another Click Fraud Article Yahoo Maps Gets a Widget - A new version of an MSN Virtual Earth widget was released over the weekend for Mac OSX Dashboard and Yahoo Maps now has a widget (Mac and PC) that's available here.
Providers of "bird's eye" view imagery to MSN Virtual Earth/Windows Live Local. Postscript from Gary: Several people have asked where does the imagery come from that Google Maps, Google Earth, and MSN Live Local/Virtual Earth come from.
Steven Lawler, GM of Virtual Earth, told me that Chicago is on the short-list of cities. Lawler added that Virtual Earth now includes imagery from the USGS, Harris, Pictomery (the bird's eye views), and others.
The pages for major cities also show "neighborhood" links to the left of the main map. Yahoo features custom pages for major cities throughout the US, as listed here, with areas of those cities broken down into individual neighborhoods.
