Techno Babble

Microsofts Local Live now offers 3D views.

Here’s a snapshot I recently captured around Bostons Financial district.

Virtual Earth is provided as part of its online mapping service and has been designed to work in a web browser. Currently photorealistic images are provided for 15 cities in the US including Boston and Los Angeles. (You can also see the Tower of London and the Millenium Wheel in London).

Seen as a competitor for Google Earth – Google says it has distributed more than 100 million free copies of Google Earth since June 2005 – Microsofts version is also offering on-line advertisers the opportunity to display adverts on “billboards” around the 3D landscape (as seen in the above image)

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