Someone at work had a nice bird's eye aerial view of the company building, He got it from Microsoft's ripoff of Google Maps which was my route-finding site of choice. The Microsoft version has much better aerial photo's of my town than Google, showing cars where on googles you cannot make out houses.
But it got better: there is a 3D view that somehow manages to show pictures from a choice of the four compass points. The pictures of my house are amazing, you can see the whole estate and compare the size of your garden to everybody else's. I'd like to do some printouts to hang on the wall but am scared of copyright police. The bird's eye shots seem to date from 1999 and my house is shown as woodland. The 3D shots are from last year, 2006, as a couple of houses at the end of the estate are still being built.
What is odd is the consistant lighting level over the whole town. Is it one big picture or do they do some processing on many pictures and stitch them together?
Peter's Moblog
