GMaps competitor?
2/28/2006 10:07:00 AM
(See what I'm talking about)
Maybe their overlays aren't as accurate as Google Maps, but Windows Live Local has much more detailed pictures than GMaps does (even if a bit outdated). I only checked our current residence and the city of Steamboat. Our place in Houston can zoom in all the way, but then the street overlay is off by about half a block (whoops!). But in Steamboat, the road maps seem to overlay over the satellite pictures pretty accurately, and the pictures are MUCH more detailed than what Google Maps has to offer (even if only in B&W).Not sure about how "open" the MS version is (don't know if they let you hack around with it), but I intend to find out...
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I keep on getting "server busy" errors... don't even get the option for "birds eye"
*shrug*
posted at 11:03 AM
The scratch pad concept is very cool. The ability to look up businesses, add them to a list on the scratch pad then email or even blog the scratch pad. It says it's powered by Virtual Earth. Anyone heard of them before?
And google maps is horribly outdated in some of their satellite areas as well. For instance, it shows the business park where I work at from at least years ago.
posted at 11:43 AM
That was supposed to say 5 years ago.
posted at 11:44 AM
Actually Microsoft has had this going back to 1998, they are just copying off of google in the way it is presented :-)
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/About.aspx?N=AboutSponsors
Probably explains why a lot of the maps are so old as they rely on the USGS for them.
posted at 1:19 PM
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