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…
