Google deploying planes over cities for 3D maps (2012)

Post by mandeepj » Thu, Jan 06, 2022, 12:31 AM UTC

Tempest1981 wrote: post #12

Wasn't Bing Maps the first big player to offer 45-degree angle aerial imagery? The article doesn't mention their "Bird’s Eye view" (airplane pics from 4 angles, not satellite), but I think I remember using it for some cities, before Google had it. Although I think it was short-lived. Google was focused on StreetView, iirc. After Keyhole. Around 2009? https://www.computerworld.com/article/2468196/bing-maps--mic... Edi…

Post by kingcharles » Thu, Jan 06, 2022, 2:46 AM UTC

codeulike wrote: post #19

hoppyhoppy2 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember using the Microsoft aerial imagery in 2004 (that year corresponds to a certain year in high school when I used it for a class project). It wasn't "Bing" back then, but I remember it predating -- or at least having better-quality photos than -- Google Maps' aerial imagery.

Might have been Terraserver? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraserver.com For a while, Terraserver was the biggest database on the web With 5 terabytes of uncompressed image data, Microsoft TerraServer is bigger than all the HTML pages combined already on the Internet. [1998] https://news.microsoft.com/1998/06/24/microsoft-partners-ann...