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Virtual Earth: 26 Terabyte update; includes new 3d and "hill shaded"

Congrats to the Virtual Earth team for publishing 26 terabytes of updates, on time for their "July publish" (1 terabyte = 1024 gb).  That's just a big impressive number, wow.

The new updates include a new feature, called "hill shaded", that adds topographical information to the road maps.  A quite useful feature, especially if you're headed for the hills, like the camping trip I took last weekend near Concrete, WA.

hillshaded
(click on the image to go to the Virtual Earth map)

Also included are Aerial and 3d updates to a number of cities, including Eastbourne in the UK; Toulouse, France; Hamilton, Quebec, Toronto (with Montreal to come in the next release) in Canada, and a long list of cities in the US.

Comments

 

jamiet said:

More impressive when you write it like this:

26000000000000 bytes

:)

July 6, 2007 9:12 PM
 

AndyD said:

Good job guys!

Finally someone has hi res images of my college. :)

Boo! @ Google!

July 7, 2007 3:49 AM
 

paulstorm said:

what?!  no school spirit?!  What college so we can all take a view!  :)

July 8, 2007 1:24 PM
 

AndyD said:

It's in Grove City PA.

Google has low res crap, while MS now has hi res glory. :D

July 9, 2007 3:02 AM

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