Microsoft 3D Maps
10:02 pm on the 29th of May, 2007
I’ve just been playing with Microsoft’s new offering - 3D maps.
3D maps from Microsoft so far are very impressive(although it’s ground my machine down to a halt) I’ve been looking around New York for starters, and managed to get stabbed in the eye with the spike of the Chrysler Building! The level of detail is absolutely astounding. What is fantastic is that you can link to a particular view (or at least you appear to be able to, try this to see, or this one - you’ll need to install it first) from whatever angle you are looking from.
Like Google Earth it is very easy to navigate. I’m sure I’ll be spending a little more time on this in the future.
There’s a write up of it over on Read/Write Web which covers which cities it’s available for. I’ve had no luck with Google’s 3D images, which were also launched today. Those also sound pretty good - a 360 panorama taken from video recorded from a van driving the streets, so in effect you can see the view from any point along a street it’s been down, apparently you can make out faces in enough detail to recognise people…
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May 31st, 2007 at 5:09 pm on the 31st of May, 2007
Hi Stuart I have played with Earth and Vitual Earth (NASA World Wind too). Each its pros and cons but the thing which made Google the best for me in the school was the ability of the pupils to create the 3d models themselves in Sketchup and then upload them.
I know that MS spent a lot of time getting the highly detailed pics of all the major cities in the UK but it doesn’t really help me where I am
June 1st, 2007 at 9:31 am on the 1st of June, 2007
I think it’s great to be able to add things to Google too, this is what you are presenting at sett isn’t it?
I suppose when I was writing this post I was just excited by the level of detail that Microsoft had added but not really looking for ways to use it in school, just for my own interest.
June 1st, 2007 at 11:57 am on the 1st of June, 2007
Yes I am talking about it at SETT (Sorry AB, The Scottish Learning Festival). I am also doing a presentation ith my HT about our School of Ambition project.
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