Daily Archive for March 19th, 2008

New Aerial Photos for Austria


Biside high resolution aerial photos of the provinicial capitals of Austria Herold.at provides enhanced photos for Wiener Neustadt, Wels, Villach, Kitzbühel, Steyr, Hartberg, Linz-Umgebung, Leoben und Kufstein. This was communicated by the Herold company on Tuesday.

They assert that their service is ahead of others in Austria:

“Damit beweisen wir einmal mehr, dass wir bei Luftbildaufnahmen von Österreich eindeutig die Nase vorne haben”, so Herold-CEO Thomas Friess.

The high resolution photos were taken on October 2007 with an altitude of 2500 meters. It is not possible to recognize any peole on the records.

Simmilar to other services like Google Maps, Yahoo Maps or Live Maps the user can choose between “map“, “satellite” or “hybrid” view. Additional Points of Interests (POI), like ATMs, hotels, parking areas, post offices, restaurants or gas stations can be visualized.

[via derStandard]

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