Tag Archives: virtual earth
Water Quality of European Bathing Sites on a Map
The European Environment Agency (EEA) launched the Eye on Earth – Water Watch campaign for Europe. The idea is that everyone gets information about bathing site all over Europe. Through the new portal users can rate beaches and share their … Continue reading
Graz and Vienna in 3D
Yesterday the first news came up that Graz and Vienna are now available in 3D. Virtual Earth was enhanced with the datasets of these cities. The 3D information is derived from areal photographs recored in different angles. Written and Submitted … Continue reading
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Tagged 3d, austria, data, graz, Microsoft, vexcel, vienna, virtual earth
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Virtual Earth 6.1 – the most important improvements
Today Microsoft has updated their Webmapping service Virtual Earth to version 6.1. In this actual version lots of new functions were integrated. Now the service should be working also on Safari and Internet Explorer 8 Beta. New photographies are integrated … Continue reading
DualMap
Mapchannels has developed a great Google Maps and Virtual Earth hack, which allows to navigate parallel. You can see my example here:http://www.joesonic.com/2_dualmap_en.php Written and submitted from Home, using my 802.11g WiFi network.
Euro 2008 enables Vienna in 3D
Microsofts Virtual Earth recently has updated their image data. Now all austrian host cities of the Euro 2008 tournament can be viewed in high relolution bird’s eye view (e.g. Klagenfurt, Innsbruck). But this is no real 3D city model. For … Continue reading
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Tagged 3d, euro 2008, Microsoft, soccer, turnament, virtual earth
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Vexcel Imaging
The ORF (Austrian Broadcasting) has recently shown an documentation about Vexcel Imaging Graz, and their technology to make areal photographs and calculate altitude for designing 3D city models. Vexcel was aquired by Microsoft and their technology is used by Microsoft’s … Continue reading
Posted in GIS, Software
Tagged 3d city models, altitude, areal photographs, earth service, graz, Microsoft, orf, virtual earth
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Microsoft’s Birds Eye view in Austria
Recently a 35.13 terabyte data update in Virtual Earth happend. Some Austrian Cities like: Innsbruck Klagenfurt Linz Salzburg St. Pölten Villach Wels were also affected. They can be seen now in high resolution. With the “Bird’s Eye View” these Austrian … Continue reading
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Tagged austrian cities, eye view, high resolution, klagenfurt, linz, Microsoft, salzburg, Villach, virtual earth, wels
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Is Google Maps a GIS?
There are some interesting discussions about the topic if Google Maps or related Products like Yahoo! Maps, Live Maps, virtual Earth or Google Earth can be defined as Geographic Information Systems (GIS). By definition Geographic Information Systems are: Burrough, P.A., … Continue reading
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Tagged definition, discussion, geographic information systems, Google Maps, virtual earth, yahoo maps
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