Australia gets new Virtual Earth Birdseye imagery
Some of the big cities in the world have it...and now its Australia's turn. Yesterday we finally launched the new Birds Eye View of four cities in Australia with many more to come.
On top of this...we also announced the release of Virtual Earth version 6.1, which features enhanced 3-D city models offering 10 times the number of buildings in each city that previous versions of Virtual Earth offered, 3-D trees, detailed terrain features, and more accurate building textures and colouring. The enhanced 3-D detail soon will roll out to more than 250 cities where 3-D models currently are available including Sydney.
The updated platform also features the ability to view imagery in bird’s-eye hybrid view in many cities, allowing users to view street names laid over bird’s-eye maps, providing better visual context and orientation. In addition to imagery updates, users now can get where they are going faster with added support to export Collections to Keyhole Markup Language (KML), GPX and GeoRSS, which you can load directly to portable navigation systems; traffic-based routing using Microsoft Research’s ClearFlow technology to predict side-street traffic based on current traffic flows; and new walking directions to find the most direct route to walk to a destination, ignoring one-way streets, medians and other detours that pertain to motor vehicles.
For more information and a full list of updates, please visit http://virtualearth4gov.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!369B39F890CE30C1!866.entry or http://ve3d.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!8605F660DBFB797A!175.entry.
Checkout the images below with the appropriate links
Gold Coast, Queensland
Wollongong, NSW
Hobart, Tasmania
Sydney, NSW
