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Jack may look like an ordinary guy, but he sure gets around, with the help of us of course - a small team dedicated to high quality Immersive Street-Side Imagery, and bringing mass coverage online.
Mapjack.com showcases a new level of mapping technology. What others have done with NASA budgets and Star Wars-like equipment, we’ve done [...]

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I was in the Microsoft Company store getting some XBOX stuff for holiday gifts yesterday and saw a bunch of people in line ahead of me with Streets and Trips (known as Autoroute in Europe), presumably for the same reason Streets and Trips is the top selling mapping and trip planning software [...]

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Congratulations to the Virtual Earth team in China for releasing version one of Live Search Maps for China. If you read Chinese you can try it out at http://ditu.live.com. The application was built in China with a focus on getting the features most relevant to our Chinese customers out first. Business search, Collections, [...]

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Brian Flood of Spatial Data Logic has been ironing out integration issues the last couple of weeks, and from the looks of things its been worth the effort which brings you Virtual Earth inside ArcGIS including layouts. In this beta release of Arc2Earth I know how hard Brian worked to get the layout [...]

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Online flight trackers are useful for knowing when to leave to meet guests at the airport and practical stuff like that. IFly is using the Virtual Earth map control as their visualization engine on their website which gives them traditional 2D views of where a flight is in realtime, but it also gives [...]

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Thanks to those who created videos for the contest…now it’s time to get voting for your favorite.
Using the voting gadget above, vote for your favorite…remember the first place winner will receive the new Zune media player and second place will receive a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate.
You can view each video with these links:

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In the light of the Ordnance Survey asking us to remove our London Model from Second Life and while we wait for details on licensing we thought it was worth carrying on the work but this time with a different dataset.
Thus while Virtual London sits on a shelf due to data restrictions we [...]

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We have been keeping an eye on Earthmine for a while as the use of stereo panoramas to extract 3D information presents a rapid way to both create and populate a 3D model in a way that is easily understandable.
They have just put out a press release that states:
earthmineinc., 3D street side mapping [...]

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Our forthcoming reader contributed book ‘The Worlds Worst Urban Places and Spaces’ has spawned a companion entitled ‘The Worlds Best Urban Places and Spaces’ it comes courtesy of Russell Davies and Dan Hill.
To quote Russell on our notion of producing a blog reader contributed book:

I thought that was a really interesting idea, a [...]

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