Microsoft Virtualearth
Who would have guessed MS would come out with a service that is almost identical to google maps? Eh? Me for one..and now they have.
Microsoft virtualearth is almost exactly the same type of thing as the google maps satellite function, even in the way that it uses the same way to navigate it, ie. using the keyboard arrow keys and the +/- buttons to zoom in and out etc.
Though, it doesn’t load the pictures as quickly as Google maps, I think they may possibly be of higher quality in most areas, I can’t really tell. Hmm.
They also don’t yet have any satellite pictures of the UK, seems to only be the USA, but, that’s how G Maps started out too, they have only recently added other countries.
Update, 19:42:
Now hang on just a cotton picking minute.
I thought this was a virtual earth?
Well, is the entire world blank and white?
Microsoft seem to think so. The whole of their “Virtualearth” is black and white, no colour whatsoever. Unless you count the overlayed ‘green’ where there is a park.
Plus, the pictures must be very old, as you can clearly see in this location, JFK Aiport, NY, there is a Concorde at the terminal. And another here. Concorde went out of service in 2002.
I knew I’d find something that would suck about it and thus once again reiterate exactly why Google are the best.
