Microsoft Introduce MSN Virtual Earth
Filed in: Microsoft, Web — May 25th, 2005
Microsoft sends news today that founder Bill Gates has announced a MSN Virtual Earth service is to debut in the summer. The service is promised to provide:
- Satellite images with 45-degree-angle views of buildings and neighborhoods
- Satellite images with street map overlays
- Ability to add local data layers, such as showing local businesses or restaurants
The service will allow users to choose from a number of different data types plus allow people to contribute their own information. The announcement came today at the D3 conference happening this week.
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Watch video of MSN Virtual Earth Team
Thought:
Competition is good. Hopefully Google and/or Microsoft will expand their virtual map to Malaysia. For the moment, I found MultiMap has quite detail Malaysia map. Of course, no photo lah!
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May 26th, 2005 at 9:37 am
This is getting more and more advanced. Maybe next time microsoft would be able to release something that could even track movement on earth , i mean which is near enough to the map and would be able to see what they are doing to the public
May 26th, 2005 at 10:09 am
@ahkiong: you mean live satelite view? It would be a paid version then.