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Microsoft maps erase Apple HQ
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MSN's Virtual Earth mapping service displays an empty field where Apple headquarters is located, while rival service, Google Maps, shows the buildings around the Infinite Loop.
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meanwhile at the m$ shareholders meeting:
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Yeah well Microsoft maps sucks...it's all black and white...and navigation is terrible. I think Google has already beaten them in this competition.
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M$ sucks at everything they attempt.
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There was a thread a while ago with an Encarta map that makes you drive all the way around the edge of northern Ireland (I think? Maybe it was England) and back down (something like 100 miles) to circle around to the neighboring city which was only 10 miles away.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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I do like that the scrollwheel workswith MSN Maps for zooming though.
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Originally Posted by JHromadka
I do like that the scrollwheel workswith MSN Maps for zooming though.
Likewise.
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Genius. You know who.
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Originally Posted by jcadam
M$ sucks at everything they attempt.
Except at making bajillions and bajillions of quatloos.
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Comparison...
Google Maps:
MSN Virtual Earth:
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"You rise," he said, "like Aurora." 
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Uhhh, am i the only person that recognizes MS's photo as a construction site? Google just has a newer photo.
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Did anyone look at the Google Earth photo of the white - house? It looks like a cardboard cutout. Also: The capital building is much more blurry than the surrounding detail. (Where I am this week ,I can look out my window and see it .... it's not blurry in real life.) <GRIN>
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Originally Posted by tooki
Uhhh, am i the only person that recognizes MS's photo as a construction site? Google just has a newer photo.
tooki
I think everyone (or at least most people) realise that.
It's just an entertaining side-effect of Microsoft using older photographs.
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Couldnt MS afford a few hundred satellites so that we could all get real-time views? 
Can't view my city yet as I'm in canada, but even googles images are at least a few months outdated.
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Well, many of these photos are taken from airplanes, not satellites, actually.
I bet MS could afford a whole fleet of planes to do this with!
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Why use an old construction photo? hmmm?
They M$uck.
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Originally Posted by tooki
Uhhh, am i the only person that recognizes MS's photo as a construction site? Google just has a newer photo.
No doubt you're right, tooki, but to not have at least some form of the Apple Campus would indicate that these pictures are some 20 years old. If you zip on over to New York City, you'll find that in MSN's photos the WTC is still there.
I expect reasonably recent images in mapping products. I can understand some lag, maybe even a year or two, but 20 years seems just a bit much. Is this really the best MSN could do?
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You are in Soviet Russia. It is dark. Grue is likely to be eaten by YOU!
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I'm pretty sure I have a few of the details wrong here, but I believe Microsoft either hosts or outright owns the Terraserver database, which was one of the first comprehensive USGS aerial surveys of the country. I'll bet that the Microsoft maps are largely based on this database, where Google has some newer stuff.
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Google Earth specifies in their documentation that the photos are all < 3 years old.
I wish they would notify me before they photo my house. I needed to mow my lawn on photo day.
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MS's overhead map doesn't line up with the satelite images. Looks like a 3-year-old drew over it. Google's actually matches the satelite info.
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you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Yeah, If they had told me too, I'd have put on some swim trunks while sundbathing on my roof.... I apoligize if I scared anyone who thougth that an odd place for a flagpole...
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Originally Posted by budster101
Yeah, If they had told me too, I'd have put on some swim trunks while sundbathing on my roof.... I apoligize if I scared anyone who thougth that an odd place for a flagpole...
ROFL .... love it!
BTW: Has anyone looked at a satellite photo of a nude beach? (Just curious)
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Yep. Construction site around a big, boxy building. Note that on TerraServer they give a date for the aerial photos (yes, aerial photos, not satellite pix) of 10/30/1991. Quite a while ago. For comparison, the TerraServer photo of where I live is ten years old, while Google's picture of my neighborhood is about 10-12 months old.
Also note the credit on the TerraServer photo of my place AND of Apple HQ:
"Image courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey"
All the images on Google Maps are copyright 2005 by DigitalGlobe.
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that explains why the World Trade centre is still on the map then. you'd of thought they could of got newer images?
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Google maps show a big empty field where my house is. What does Google have against me?!?!
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They must have gotten old pictures.... 
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Originally Posted by budster101
They must have gotten old pictures....
And on purpose!
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Why is the lounge turning into a bad copy of Slashdot?
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Originally Posted by wataru
Why is the lounge turning into a bad copy of Slashdot?
I'm thinking more along the lines of Fark myself. I know I'm guilty of making some very similar responses in both places.
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You are in Soviet Russia. It is dark. Grue is likely to be eaten by YOU!
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