Fly around above MIT (super high res)

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>Competition can be really good for the consumer. Not to be outdone by Google, Microsoft has sunk a boatload of money into acquiring super high-res imagery of many areas in the U.S., with more on the way.</p>

<p>Don't believe me? Go to </p>

<p><a href="http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=42.359379%7E-71.0923&style=o&lvl=1&scene=948543%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=42.359379~-71.0923&style=o&lvl=1&scene=948543&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>or</p>

<p><a href="http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=42.358716%7E-71.093482&style=o&lvl=2&scene=2978008%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=42.358716~-71.093482&style=o&lvl=2&scene=2978008&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p>

<p>The interface still leaves a bit to be desired. Panning is done via thumbnails on the left. Use the compass to look from a different direction. Use the "big buildings"/"little buildings" to zoom out and in.</p>

<p>If you want to fly down memorial drive, note the people on the fields.</p>

<p>This is still a pretty incredible product. If you live in a fairly densely settled area, you can probably find your house.</p>

<p>P.S. There's also a sailing class in progress :-) <a href="http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=42.35837%7E-71.085977&style=o&lvl=1&scene=2977858%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=42.35837~-71.085977&style=o&lvl=1&scene=2977858&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Wow, that's amazing. Microsoft>Google? Google>Microsoft? I dunno, but they both hire a lot of MIT grads. Whoever pays more money. Hehehe. And I swear we're the only two people who browse these forums @ 12 AM PST.</p>

<p>How could you leave this out?
<a href="http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=34.13864%7E-118.124803&style=o&lvl=1&scene=3434836%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=34.13864~-118.124803&style=o&lvl=1&scene=3434836&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Well, this is the MIT forum :-)</p>

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<p>These are great, but I think the images are somewhat old: Stata</a> Center has been finished for a while now... ;)</p>

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<p>If Stata's not finished, that puts them at about two years old. Still very nice pictures.</p>

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<p>i don't know... but i still prefer google maps. one can see more things at one time.</p>

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<p>I do like Google, but I have to say, Windows Live is very well done. A lot of new things at Microsoft come out looking very sharp.</p>

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<p>I'm usually anti-Microsoft, but I was impressed too. Google's interface wins by a long shot at this point, but I think this will be fixed soon.</p>

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I do like Google, but I have to say, Windows Live is very well done. A lot of new things at Microsoft come out looking very sharp.

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<p>This is precisely the problem, though. This is a neat product (it looks nifty), but if you think about it, neither Google's nor Microsoft's technology is anything knew: it is just an old idea rehashed. Nothing innovative has come out of either company for years.</p>

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<p>But they take something that exists and makes it perfect. And they've both made lots of money. So where's the complaint?</p>

<p>Don't bash the best companies in teh world, you're just jealous.</p>

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<p>yeah, edy_42. Just because the stock-prices have been declining lately for your multi-million dollar internet and computer software startup company that is directly in competition with Google and Microsoft, doesn't mean you all of a sudden have free reign to be some jealous nay-sayer.</p>

<p>Gosh.</p>

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your multi-million dollar internet and computer software startup company

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don't mock him pebbles.
just because his multi-million dollar company can't compete with billion dollar companies like Google and Microsoft doesn't mean he isn't just as successful</p>

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<p>Yeah but he could have the common decency not to DERIDE other companies out of envy. I mean... corporate giants have feelings, too.</p>

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Yeah but he could have the common decency not to DERIDE other companies out of envy. I mean... corporate giants have feelings, too.

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<p>You guys are hilarious. You do have a point, though, perhaps I shouldn't say anything. I was merely saying that rather than being impressed with simple technology demonstrations, we should think about some of the real technology that is coming out of the major software giants.</p>

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<p>does this actually work in a good browser? Firefox fails at this, for me.</p>

<p>Tell me you all aren't using IE.</p>

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<p>I've done my experimentations with it using Firefox.</p>

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<p>It works in Firefox ;)</p>