January 2009 Virtual Earth Imagery Release

Wow. Some of this imagery is indeed stunning: Microsoft today announced its January 2009 Virtual Earth imagery release, which accounts for 37 terabytes of data. The imagery updates includes Bird's Eye imagery for cities in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Romania, Spain, Sweden and UK. The release also updates high resolution orthos imagery in Scotland, UK, Greece, Japan, Norway, Portugal and Spain as well as satellite imagery in  multiple countries. These pictures from the Virtual Earth blog pretty much say it all: Good stuff.

Paul Thurrott

February 4, 2009

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Wow. Some of this imagery is indeed stunning: Microsoft today announced its January 2009 Virtual Earth imagery release, which accounts for 37 terabytes of data. The imagery updates includes Bird's Eye imagery for cities in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Romania, Spain, Sweden and UK. The release also updates high resolution orthos imagery in Scotland, UK, Greece, Japan, Norway, Portugal and Spain as well as satellite imagery in  multiple countries.

These pictures from the Virtual Earth blog pretty much say it all:

Good stuff.

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Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is senior technical analyst for Windows IT Pro. He writes the SuperSite for Windows, a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE, and a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE.

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