I was so excited about this possibility back in 2006 when I did a mini-work-talk at AULA as the writing was on the wall back then: Google plus 3D plus maps... now it just needs a game layer and it's world domination time...
(via Kotaku)
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Posted by: dan | April 16, 2010 at 11:57
Have you checked out hte Microsoft one? Windows Live or Bing Maps or whatever it's called? I beleive they've integrated some variant of the Flight Sim engine and the tech and building extrusion, etc, is really good. I checked out Montreal and Paris and was surprised at how much there was there.
Posted by: Kim | April 16, 2010 at 16:21
Hmm, the only thing I've seen in Bing is the amazing flash-based (?) 3D zoom stuff demoed in Jan.
I wonder if you mean this:
http://www.bing.com/toolbox/blogs/maps/archive/2008/07/23/announcing-truespace-for-virtual-earth-3d-development.aspx
Def something interesting going on there...
Posted by: Alice | April 16, 2010 at 17:31
http://www.digitalearthblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/virtual-earth-clouds.jpg
Posted by: Kim | April 17, 2010 at 18:59