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Information Technology News Microsoft's 3D cityscapes go live with New York
Information Technology News Microsoft's 3D cityscapes go live with New York | Microsoft's 3D cityscapes go live with New York |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 29 May 2007 | |
  
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The Live Search Maps 3-D New York cityscape will initially provide aerial views of Times Square, Central Park, Wall Street, Rockefeller Plaza and "dozens of other famous spots" along with Yellow Pages listings, location and contact information, consumer ratings and reviews for New York City businesses; Real-time traffic incident and driving directions incorporated into maps. Users will be able to create custom maps and lists of places for their own use or to share with others Austin, Texas, Cape Coral (Florida), Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Northampton (UK), Ottawa, Savannah (Georgia) and Tampa (Florida) will be added over coming weeks. The service is at http://maps.live.com/, but when iTWire tried to access it reverted to a different link. iTWire flagged the possibility of this service last November when Microsoft enhanced Live Search with a new service, Virtual Earth, giving searchers the option to display search results as two-dimensional views or three dimensional models. This followed Microsoft demonstrating the Photosynth technology at the SISGGRAPH 2006 conference in Boston and Microsoft being reported to be commissioning an army of photographers to take "millions of pictures of urban landscapes from planes, vans and motorbikes" to create 3D images on Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. / Google is also getting into the same game. Last September it announced a multimedia overlay for Google Maps providing information about the location that the user zooms in on.{moscomment} |
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