NoScream~SPARTA~ Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Virtual earth - microsofts online answer to googles "google earth" and it's fcukin great. http://maps.live.com/ Enter your post code or zip code and press enter. eg. somewhere in the uk. http://maps.live.com/#JndoZXJlMT1sczE0MW5o...S4yOTM5NDUzMTI1 then click "Birds Eye" view http://maps.live.com/#JndoZXJlMT1sczE0MW5o...S4yOTM5NDUzMTI1 Try it and you'll be amazed lastly use the rotate buttons to rotate around the address left click anywhere on the map and drag to move map about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrNo~SPARTA~ Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 The 3d thing looks like its right out of MS flight simulator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 yeah tis cool pretty much the same as google and others as in the fact some places have better zoom than others. but like the 3d thing cool as you like found my mates boat at weymouth harbour on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krambo Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 my house aint on there yet, bit ood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xross Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Yeah it's really great s/w. I use both but prefer Virtual Earth most of the time. My GPS s/w links to Google Earth so it stays for now. Primary monitor runs the GPS s/w and when I want to get a satellite view of a waypoint I just select 'view on Google Earth' and it opens on secondary monitor with a rotating globe that auto centers on the waypoint and zooms in....very nice tool. I could find my old house in a wooded area in North Georgia on Google Earth but not on Virtual Earth due to the light conditions at the time current photo was taken. It's improved considerably over the last year or so. Typically though I prefer the resolution, rendering and I/O provided with the MS product. Great stuff and they're FREE! Thx Viiiper! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halli~SPARTA~ Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 My junky yard HAHA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maj3stic~SPARTA~ Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 I am currently working on the 3d mapping part (modeling a radioactive cloud for an exercise in Philadelphia), not for google or windoz but we use this type of tech in the Hazardous wast biz to look for "avenues of contamination" a lot of what your seeing in the 3d is from "LIDA" data http://www.csc.noaa.gov/products/sccoasts/html/tutlid.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KalXen~SPARTA~ Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 My junky yard HAHA. That picture really doesn't show the long wooden patio on the north side of your house though.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halli~SPARTA~ Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 If you look closley you can see the Dog on a little table out back. Also see my wrecked 85 GMC Sierra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MedicSN6 Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 Wow, so i was reading this and thinking that this was really old news and that someone had already posted about this along time ago so I opened the search to find the original thread then it occurred to me that maybe, just maybe someone brought out the Defibrillator pads on the original thread and Lo-And-Behold I was right. Cool thread none-the-less. I liked the latest link. Interesting stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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