Google maps is better was my first impression, but the satellite images that MSN puts up are impressive at high zoom... until I saw that my neighbors pool wasn't filled so that means the images, in my case, are well over a year old, and the house down the street that was demolished last year is also in the pics. I know it shouldn't matter, but it kind of sets a psychological barrier in an age when everything is updated all the time.
UPDATE: actually make that well over 3 years old for the images, I just recognized a car in the street that my neighbor used to drive.
Link: MSN Virtual Earth.
Google earth is so much better than MSN's version. Jeez I wish I had had this as a kid so we could have seen where all the pools were in the summer to go pool-hopping!
Posted by: Paul J. | Jul 26, 2005 at 09:32 AM
More signs of just how old images Virtual Earth is using:
Missing: Google, Apple, Sun, Oracle HQ's (jokes going around the Blogosphere about this being the world as Bill would like to see it ..)
Still there: Twin Towers in NYC, in their full pre-9/11 glory...
http://www.zoliblog.com/blog/_archives/2005/7/25/1074634.html
Posted by: Zoli Erdos | Jul 26, 2005 at 11:08 AM
I found Oracle's HQ in Redwood Shores:
http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?ss=apple&cp=37.333411%7C-122.029708&style=h&lvl=17&v=1
sad to see the WTC frozen in time.
Posted by: jeff | Jul 26, 2005 at 12:37 PM