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Does anyone remember Microsoft Terraserver? An extremely slow mapping solution that predates Google maps.
by mongol 7y ago
Does anyone remember Microsoft Terraserver? An extremely slow mapping solution that predates Google maps.
- ejdyksen 7y agoI do! I remember showing everyone in the family black and white satellite images of our neighborhood. I seem to recall it was the first place any of us had seen satellite images outside of movies or CNN, and certainly the first place we had seen images of where we lived.
- bluedino 7y agoYup - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2004/07/tr-2004-67.doc https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
- nolok 7y agoWordpress really is everywhere
- n4r9 7y agoI remember using streetmap.co.uk to look at maps in the UK while in secondary school, so it probably pre-dated Google Maps. Looks like it serves tiles styled on Ordnance Survey maps of the country.
- jacquesm 7y agoAt the time it was one of the largest publicly accessible datasets.