SPAM!!!: SPAM!!!: SPAM!!!: Re: SPAM!!!: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Microsoft's Virtual Earth - Googlemaps Clone?

[Sylvain Beorchia]

Hi,


"And by the way, what good is imagery when you need driving directions or need to find something particular? Who cares about seeing your house? (I hope you already know what it looks like and where it is)"


In the Google earth application, what is really interesting for most of the people IS to see their house from the sky. I'm a mapserver developper, but i sometimes use google earth not to work, but just to have fun and watch the Great wall from the sky, the pyramids from the sky, new york from the sky... and with the good precision we can have in google earth that's really cool.
I see google earth as a viewer just for fun more than a way to work.
If you want some driving directions, no need of rasters, application like Mappy are good enought, i think.

Thanks.
Sylvain B.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Morten Nielsen 
  To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 10:05 AM
  Subject: SPAM!!!: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Microsoft's Virtual Earth - Googlemaps Clone?


  >I saw this, but was thoroughly disappointed in it.  No detailed images of Canada appeared.  What good is a virtual earth if all that is displayed is the USA?



  Well Google have been running their app for quite some time now. VE has just been launched two days ago. They are still in the process of getting more and more data online, and more up-to-date imagery, as well-as eagle-eye imagery. Microsoft has decided to launch with only USA data, and then more data later. I can't see the big problem in that, and seems quite reasonable when you think about it. They are under pressure from Google, and shouldn't wait too long. I guess you always will be able to find spots where one is better than the other. Examples below:

  Dodgers stadium:
  http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.073759,-118.239949&spn=0.005859,0.009917&t=k&hl=en
  http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?cp=34.073559|-118.240567&style=h&lvl=19&v=1

  Hollywood:
  http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.134057,-118.321670&spn=0.005855,0.009917&t=k&hl=en
  http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?cp=34.134057|-118.321673&style=h&lvl=19&v=1

  Pentagon:
  http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.870871,-77.056400&spn=0.005507,0.009917&t=k&hl=en
  http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?cp=38.871234|-77.057875&style=h&lvl=19&v=1

  And Google's own headquarters isn't visible in Google's map :-)
  http://maps.google.com/maps?q=google+mountain+view&ll=37.423406,-122.082659&spn=0.011090,0.016919&t=k&num=10&start=0&hl=en


  And by the way, what good is imagery when you need driving directions or need to find something particular? Who cares about seeing your house? (I hope you already know what it looks like and where it is)

  >I still love google.

  Yeah its _still_ the coolest, but VE also has some nice features, and when it all gets brushed of, I think it can be just as cool. Check it out in a few months. Btw. The scratchpad and automatic updated search-result is pretty cool. I like the idea that queries corresponds to the area you are viewing. Oh yeah and the scroll-wheel can be used for zooming!

  There are plenty of kick-ass javascripts to steal from both apps :-)

   

  /Morten
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