ace new (up to date) Microsoft virtual earth!

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Sun 16 Mar, 2008 7:43 pm

i dont know if anybody's seen this http://maps.live.com/but if you zoom in close and press the birds eye button its pretty impressive, and also bang up to date! (give and take a few months)

ExplorerRich · Post by **ExplorerRich** » Sun 16 Mar, 2008 7:54 pm

Just checked my house out. the photos around 2 years old as thats the last time I had a skip in the drive!

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Sun 16 Mar, 2008 8:41 pm

it doesn't get as close in as google earth

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Sun 16 Mar, 2008 9:07 pm

we must be looking at different maps because the ls9 birdseye map is 6 months old at the latest!

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Sun 16 Mar, 2008 9:08 pm

ExplorerRich wrote: Just checked my house out. the photos around 2 years old as thats the last time I had a skip in the drive! im talking about the birdseye feature! so your telling me this picture of jimmys is two years old then???this was took about the time them dodgy lookin spy planes were flying back and forth(phil d you know what im talking about) this is what they must have been doing.

Post by **chameleon** » Sun 16 Mar, 2008 11:05 pm

Not at all sure about this Brandy - I see markers which tell me parts are at least 18 months old.The Oncology unit at Jimmy's has been open for a little while now but this picture still looks as though there would be limited public access.The thread about the planes was in Novemeber wasn't it? - all the trees in the images are in full leaf suggesting much earlier in the year and are not these aerial images of satellite origin?

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Sun 16 Mar, 2008 11:50 pm

I've noticed on google the images are patched together,the times are not consistent in places. It could be the same here. Older & newer images maybe?

Post by **chameleon** » Mon 17 Mar, 2008 12:02 am

Phill_d wrote: I've noticed on google the images are patched together,the times are not consistent in places. It could be the same here. Older & newer images maybe? Could well be of course Phill, but I've not yet noticed any; must be 6 months + old to have all that greenery. Whitehall Road opposite Globe Road and beneath the viaduct is barely looking like a construction site, certainly not the hive of activity that it has been for many months now.

Post by **chameleon** » Mon 17 Mar, 2008 12:08 am

(But can't argue with the quality of the Birds-Eye images though, HD video enhancement maybe? Would certainly be able to pick you out on the pool roof with this!).

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Mon 17 Mar, 2008 12:17 am

Yes the quality is excellent. I find it a bit of a pig to use though. It' seems to take an age to fire up some times it freezes a bit. I don't know if others find this?