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Microsoft Live Maps Drinks Google Maps’ Milkshake
- etal 19y agoSo KML is becoming a portable de-facto standard. Three cheers for compatibility.
- cousin_it 19y agoIt's not very widely known, but Live Maps is beating Google Maps in many aspects. They have 3D in the browser - yes, through a plugin, but Google didn't do even that. They have oblique aerial photos of staggering resolution - a lot of US and European cities photographed from four angles. (They use Photosynth tech for that, and have smooth turning between different angles.) And they didn't bet on user-generated 3D city models, using professional models instead, that look better than Google's. Google is leading with Street View, but it's not hard to clone. I've already seen half a dozen clones, the best is http://mapjack.com http://mapjack.com .