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Absolutely wonderful creation. Wow... Google is genious!
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Yea, it's pretty neat...

I would have really appreciated something like that about 10 years ago though...not so much now...
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it is EXTREMELY fun to play with. I love it. I'm having a blast messing with a map... :lol: :lol:
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Your drunk
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http://local.live.com has better (and more) sat-images, global maps etc. Microsoft did better Google on that one - although not sure if there's a public API for it, yet.
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patrikG wrote:http://local.live.com has better (and more) sat-images, global maps etc. Microsoft did better Google on that one - although not sure if there's a public API for it, yet.
Yeah, gotta agree with that!
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Post by jayshields »

This live thing Microsoft are doing is just like Google in that they are experimenting with loads of stuff online, seems that most of it has already been done though; and Microsoft are just adding a nice GUI and a bit of AJAX to it!
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Looks like they are trying to imitate Google... which is kind of sad. (A company worth as much as Microsoft shouldn't have to imitate anybody). I could be wrong though...
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:Looks like they are trying to imitate Google... which is kind of sad. (A company worth as much as Microsoft shouldn't have to imitate anybody). I could be wrong though...
Actually, Microsoft is built on imitating (or buying out) everything that works well.
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Has anyone used the satellite map technology to view space images of their house? The google satellite map shows my house and I can see the newspaper in my driveway. Dude, that is a little freaky...

PS Google Maps blows MS crud out of the water. It might just be me, but that MS site was slow and ugly. Google flies.
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I can see my balcony but not if I am on it or not :(
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M$ maps are B/W..... what a joke
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Post by panic! »

Microsoft's version is much, much better in my opinion: especially for the UK, also the Bird's Eye view is so awesome! you can view any location where it is enabled: from 4 isometric (-ish) angles.

Don't get me wrong I love what google do and I've owned apple hardware most of my life (not anymore though) so I'm not a big Microsoft 'fanboy' or whatever, I just think that this is a great product and MS are finally pushing the boundries a little, not so much with Virtual Earth but with some of the other projects they must be spending millions on R&D on.
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