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Virtual Earth - Bus Tracker

Downloads With Virtual Earth and the Seattle bus tracking data you can find out where you're current bus is.

11 May 2006, 19:12 > More matches in Downloads

Google Earth vs Virtual Earth 3D: War of the world viewers

Crave We had a spare minute this morning, so we thought we'd take a look at Virtual Earth 3D, released on Monday, and the fourth version of Google Earth, which dropped on 1 November. Unlike Virtual Earth, Virtual Earth 3D includes a fairly wide selection...

Tags: models, eye, virtual, earth

7 November 2006, 12:22 > More matches in Crave

Microsoft's Virtual Earth: 3D heaven

Crave Microsoft's UK release of Virtual Earth has blown us away with its high-quality imagery and ease of use. We also found Virtual Earth easier to use than Google Earth -- it's a doddle to annotate the map and we like the fact that the business search...

Tags: microsoft, google, earth, eye

2 June 2006, 11:20 > More matches in Crave

Microsoft launches 'Virtual Earth' beta

News Virtual Earth -- which offers a combination of aerial imagery, maps and yellow-pages data -- is designed to let users search for and share information about specific US locations, the company said. Virtual Earth relies on licenced yellow-pages...

26 July 2005, 8:45 > More matches in News

Microsoft's Virtual Earth flies high in UK

News Microsoft has this week launched the beta version of its online location service and Virtual Earth satellite image mapping platform in the UK. Virtual Earth, which was launched in the US last year, is a platform for a number of online location...

24 May 2006, 10:06 > More matches in News

Photos: Google Earth goes virtual

News Now, those developers will also be able to select and import terrain from Google Earth. Virtual-world developers using Multiverse Networks' platform are able to import 3D models from Google's 3D Warehouse into their projects.

Tags: models, google, platform, virtual

16 October 2007, 9:51 > More matches in News

MapCruncher for Virtual Earth

Downloads Have you ever looked at satellite photos of a building in Virtual Earth -- and wished you could zoom right in and see its floorplan? Have you ever wanted to create and publish your own map mashups -- and wished you had a tool to make it easy to...

16 January 2007, 16:08 > More matches in Downloads

Virtual Earth 3D

Downloads Virtual Earth 3D brings you another step closer to knowing "what it is like out there". You can search, browse, and organize local information viewed in three dimensions, just the way it exists in the real world.

1 June 2007, 21:16 > More matches in Downloads

Google ups ante in mapping rivalry

News In the fast-moving war over localised search, Google wasted no time on Monday responding to Microsoft MSN's Virtual Earth test site with a new 'hybrid' site of its own that lets people see an aerial view of a location with superimposed road maps.

26 July 2005, 8:38 > More matches in News

News.blog: Google Earth adds Street View

News Part of the fun of Google Earth is flying over the virtual planet like Superman. Google is racing for 3D map supremacy against Microsoft, which has been pouring energy into its Virtual Earth and Live Maps technology, including a major upgrade last...

Tags: google, virtual, earth, maps

16 April 2008, 8:23 > More matches in News

Google's grand ambition

News Certainly, it has built on the core business, adding everything from the free Web-based email service Gmail to Google Earth, a satellite mapping service. In addition, there are rumours that Google is eyeing satellites, the technology that drives...

22 September 2005, 10:08 > More matches in News

MSN announces satellite-mapping service

News Gates, presenting at the 'D' conference in Carlsbad, California, on Monday introduced MSN Virtual Earth, a map service that lets visitors zoom in on a local area and find information about restaurants, cafes, hotels, dry cleaners, and so on.

24 May 2005, 9:22 > More matches in News

Google and Microsoft vie for the Earth

News Microsoft was also represented at the event by Vincent Tao, director of MSN Virtual Earth -- the software giant's rival application to Google Earth. Tao highlighted recent improvements made to Virtual Earth, in particular the ability to view...

13 September 2006, 9:10 > More matches in News

Photos: Roam the heavens with Google Sky

News Google added a feature a couple of months ago called Sky -- which lets users roam the heavens from its Google Earth application. Effectively turning Google Earth on its head, users are given a view of the sky as seen from Earth where they can view...

Tags: navigate, earth, credit, star

29 November 2007, 9:53 > More matches in News

Google sets $30m prize for moon landing

News The X Prize is best known for the $10m Ansari X-Prize, in which 26 teams from seven countries competed to fly a reusable spacecraft 100km above the Earth. The contest invites private teams from around the world to build a robotic rover capable of...

14 September 2007, 10:29 > More matches in News