Steve Lombardi - New photography on Virtual Earth | Charles

kidzi

WOW, didn't watch the video yet, but the visuals from virtual earth are amazing. I like the pushpin feature too and mapping, very cool - and i like the way you did the printing, i was wondering about that with the map and all.

One thing that I did notice which is missing, although I have since started using this over google maps -- is the back button. There is no way to bounce to a prior search (unless you push pin everything).

Is there any way that can be fixed for a future version?

arunpv

I have 2 question with Virtual Earth
1. why is the background of aerial images dark? (in my area)
2. In the Aerial view when i zoom in and in after certain point i see a blank screen why? why not stop when i reach to the last zoomable image just like Google.

Manip

You guys are SO going to get sued by the makers of Sim City (joke).

DigitalDud

How can you have Bird's Eye views for Albuquerque, NM but not Chicago?! It's the third largest city in the country! Since I live there it's a big disappointment. Sad

Zeo
Channel 9 :)

Awesome! This is where I went to college last year. This is very very very cool.

The photo's are about 1 year old.

I wish I would of had local.live.com when I was applying to colleges.

intelman

I can't believe it, but my small town has birds eye view imagery! This is freaking awesome. The weird thing is though, on the normal imagery, my house doesn't exist, but on the birds eye, it does! I think this is a google maps/earth killer. My friends seem to agree too, when I said that they replied 'it will'. All the virtual earth team needs to do, is to update the images, all color all high resolution. Granted it will take a while, but I think they should aim to be the first with the whole US in color and high resolution with updated images which are no older than 3 years.

Problem though, in Firefox, it feels like when I click pan, that my click gets stuck and I have to click again to release that click...it is very annoying. I like the same look in firefox though, transparency! Please fix that click problem though!

moofish
Living in Scotland, UK

Fabuloso!! Not tried the website yet but just watched the video. I live in Scotland, UK and can't wait for it to come here.

It was appeasing i'm sure for you to do the 45deg mapping for several sections of US cities, but I feel to make good on the "Earth" part of the service these sections of US cities should have been sacrifised and taken from other cities around the world, that would have been better.

I said it before and I guess its up to the manufacturer but I would like to see the Kodak EasyShare cam use its built in Wi-Fi feature to add meta-data into the photo when a picture is take, similar to the where am i feature.

Keep it up guys, this I like very much.

Samuel, UK

cravikiran
Ravi Chodavarapu

Ah, I remember when this was shown in some other C9 video before and thinking how awesome it was. This is in fact very cool stuff. Have there been attempts to make it a more seamless view like the aerial and road views instead of click to go to north portion, etc.?

AFO#
Madrid 2020

Hello:

Good job, Eagle eye is a cool view option Big Smile

but... When i could see Europe aerial or road imagen?

Thanks