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Digital Earth Blog
http://www.digitalearthblog.com/
All of the latest news about the various digital earth products, such as Google Earth, Virtual Earth, Google Maps, etc.
- Added on: Aug 31st, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Mickey Mellen
- Listed in: Software
- Tags: google maps google earth virtual earth world wind
Recent Posts
Microsoft teams with Navteq to expand their Streetside coverage
When Microsoft launched Streetside a few days ago (a direct competitor to Google’s StreetView), I wondered how they could possibly catch up with the huge amount of coverage that Google already has in place. Their answer: Navteq. Navteq has ve...
Bing Maps launches a ton of new features
Microsoft has been playing catch-up to Google in the mapping world for a while. Most of their “new” features are things that Google has had for a while. Today they caught up with a few more, and even surpassed Google with a few of the...
New Google Earth imagery/3D, Bing StreetView coming soon
A couple of quick links today: Imagery update in Google Earth: Just two weeks since their last one, Google has pushed out another imagery update. It’s not a huge one, but it covers small parts of many countries. New 3D imagery in Google Earth...
Switzerland takes Google to court over StreetView
We told you a few months ago that Switzerland wasn’t pleased with the new StreetView imagery in their country. Now they’re going to sue Google in an attempt to get the imagery removed. Google intends to fight the case. The first step ...
New imagery release for Bing Maps
Microsoft has just dropped a nice imagery update on Bing Maps, covering around 180,000 sq. km. This update is focused heavily in Europe, in the following countries: Bulgaria (1,225 sq. km) Czech Republic (10,808 sq. km) Estonia (1,418 sq. km) Hung...
New StreetView imagery released and some new features for Bing Maps
Google has just released a ton of new StreetView imagery; Mexico, the Netherlands, Hawaii and various other places. [details: Google Earth Blog] Bing Maps has added a few nice features. They now have draggable routes and some new navigation feature...
