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Skriven 2005-08-02 06:31:30 av Geo (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 6410 av Ellen K. (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Good example of MS vs Google
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From: "Geo" <georger@nls.net>

Maybe Rich is right? Japanese might have been offended?

Geo.

"Ellen K." <72322.1016@compuserve.com> wrote in message
news:uvute19f50ohuln1hpo0atuspa03vjuhfc@4ax.com...
> Maybe they don't want the Al Qaeda types gloating over it.
>
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 22:39:15 -0400, "Geo" <georger@nls.net> wrote in
> message <42eedbcf@w3.nls.net>:
>
> >Very nice, but virtual earth doesn't show ground zero either
>
>http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?cp=41.43726%7c-81.04549&style=h&lv
l=17&v=1&newguid=2d470ed5ecab4d83914ad6bf689bffb8
> >
> >Why do they block it out like that?
> >
> >Geo.
> >  "Rich" <@> wrote in message news:42ee5f27@w3.nls.net...
> >     Virtual Earth is a little better still though it's not clear to me
if this is better resolution or zooming.  See
http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?cp=41.43726|-81.04549&style=h&lvl=17&v
=1.
> >
> >  Rich
> >
> >    "Geo" <georger@nls.net> wrote in message news:42edf68a@w3.nls.net...
> >    I wasn't talking about the apple one, that's obviously time sensitive
photos. But the ground zero photos were definitely pulled from terraserver. I
used to have a bookmark to them that I would regularly email to people so I got
to whitness first hand how they evaporated off the server.
> >
> >    They also pulled the photos for area 51 off terraserver, don't know
if those are on google or not as I've never checked.
> >
> >    But to be fair, check out these where terraserver is far FAR better
> >
> >
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=middlefield,+oh&ll=41.435632,-81.047666&spn=0.005
005,0.007787&t=k&hl=en
> >
> >
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=10&Z=17&X=2481&Y=22936&W=2&qs
=%7cmiddlefield%7coh%7c
> >
> >
> >    Geo.
> >      "Rich" <@> wrote in message news:42eda821$1@w3.nls.net...
> >         This whole thing is silly.  The resolution and age of satelite
imagery varies across both services.  While the anti-Microsoft folks have been
trying to play up the image of apple's location I noticed someone on slashdot
pointing out that MSN Virtual Earth has a much better image of google's
headquarters than google maps.  Compare
http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?cp=37.422037|-122.084093&style=h&lvl=1
9&v=1
to
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.422023,-122.084112&spn=0.005885,0.011140&t=h&
hl=en.
> >
> >      Rich
>

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