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 Zombasaur
Location: B. Spa, NY
Gender: Male
 |  | Helpful aerial mappng
< on 6/3/2009 5:13 PM >
|  | | | Hey everyone, new to the forum. I've been using GoogleMaps to check out some areas for exploring. A few days ago, Microsoft opened their own competing search engine, and I have to say, I'm really enjoying their overhead maps! You can go into what they call a 'birds-eye' view, which isn't directly overhead, but has an angle view. Plus you can rotate it to check out all angles of an area. If you wanted to check it out, their search engine is called Bing. Hope this helps out a few people.
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G.U.
   
Location: Sudbury/Meaford, ON Canada QC
Gender: Male
Get your F****** towel ready.
| | Re: Helpful aerial mappng
<Reply # 1 on 6/3/2009 5:38 PM >
| | | | Posted by Zombasaur
Hey everyone, new to the forum. I've been using GoogleMaps to check out some areas for exploring. A few days ago, Microsoft opened their own competing search engine, and I have to say, I'm really enjoying their overhead maps! You can go into what they call a 'birds-eye' view, which isn't directly overhead, but has an angle view. Plus you can rotate it to check out all angles of an area. If you wanted to check it out, their search engine is called Bing. Hope this helps out a few people.
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You sound like you work for Microsoft.
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Zombasaur
Location: B. Spa, NY
Gender: Male
| | Re: Helpful aerial mappng
<Reply # 2 on 6/4/2009 2:23 AM >
| | | | Posted by G.U.
You sound like you work for Microsoft.
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Ha, no MS lackey here, I'm government employed. Sorry if you guys thought it was spam, just trying to make my first post here helpful!
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hilite
   
Gender: Male
don't destroy my sweater....
| |  | Re: Helpful aerial mappng
<Reply # 3 on 6/4/2009 3:57 AM >
| | | | Yeah I love them oblique aerial photos, you can get different angles too!, perfect for virtual scouting missions,
but isn't Bing just a new template of MSN live Maps?
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shadowedsmile
Location: Northwestern Ontario
Gender: Female
mines always on the mind
| | Re: Helpful aerial mappng
<Reply # 4 on 6/4/2009 4:06 AM >
| | | | Apparently the 3D maps doesn't like Safari, so I tried Firefox but by the sounds of it it's not compatible on a Mac?
Bing Maps 3D requires the following:
* Windows XP with SP2, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Vista
* Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
* Windows Imaging Component
* The 32-bit or 64-bit version of Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, or Mozilla Firefox 3.0
* 250 MB or more of hard disk space
* A 1.0-gigahertz (GHz) processor (2.8 GHz or faster is recommended)
* 256 MB of system memory (1 GB is recommended)
* A 32-MB video card (256 MB is recommended) that supports Microsoft DirectX 9, with 3D hardware acceleration enabled
* A high-speed or broadband Internet connection
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Trap
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Gender: Male
Son, I am disappoint
| | Re: Helpful aerial mappng
<Reply # 5 on 6/4/2009 2:16 PM >
| | | | Bing is the same thing as MSN live search maps...
Posted by Send4Help:
ITS EIGHT FUCKING THIRTY!!
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don_corleyone
Location: F/RoX
Gender: Male
I have abandonment issues
| | Re: Helpful aerial mappng
<Reply # 6 on 6/4/2009 2:52 PM >
| | | | YO DAWG I HERD YOU LIEK MAPS, SO WE PUT A MAP IN UR MAP SO YOU CAN EXPLORE WHILE YOU EXPLORE.
[last edit 6/4/2009 2:54 PM by don_corleyone - edited 1 times]
leave the gun. take the cannoli.
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IDChris
Location: Southern Idaho Wasteland
Gender: Male
| | Re: Helpful aerial mappng
<Reply # 7 on 6/4/2009 4:56 PM >
| | | | Googlemaps, Live Maps, etc. They are all good. Bird's eye is nice, but I notice that different views are not always the same date.
I like historic aerials too, but their coverage is limited and the site tends to be slow, but it's very valuable for finding locations of old structures and roads.
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mrvander
Location: Cedar Rapids/Spirit Lake, IA
Gender: Male
Brick by Brick
| | Re: Helpful aerial mappng
<Reply # 8 on 6/5/2009 4:02 AM >
| | | | I've found that aerial maps are the most useful when you think there should be a building in a particular area, or want to scope an area you can't get a very good look at. I've gotten a lot of information of proximity of roads/other buildings for a site before going in.
Problem is that it's often hard to tell from those sites if someplace is actually abandoned...
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\/adder
Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| | | Re: Helpful aerial mappng
<Reply # 9 on 6/5/2009 4:10 AM >
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THANKS XZIBIT!
YOU MIGHT WANNA TRY
http://www.flashearth.com/
BUT I LIEK ACME MAPPER BETTER
http://mapper.acme.com/
THE MAP GIVES ROAD MAPS
THE SATELLITE GIVES SATELLITES
THE HYBRID GIVES YOU SATELLITES WITH LABELS
THE DOQ VIEW GIVES OLDER MAPS.
AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO| I like historic aerials too, but their coverage is limited and the site tends to be slow, but it's very valuable for finding locations of old structures and roads. |
THE TOPO GIVES TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS
THE NEXRAD GIVES WEATHER MAPS
THE MAPNIK GIVES ALTERNATE MAPS
YOU CAN MAP WHILE YOU MAP.
*edit* too many caps.
[last edit 6/5/2009 4:12 AM by \/adder - edited 2 times]
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micro
Gender: Male
Slowly I turned
| | Re: Helpful aerial mappng
<Reply # 10 on 6/5/2009 4:48 AM >
| | | | It's about time MS realized that "bing.com" is a hell of a lot easier for people to remember than maps.live.com or "Live Search Maps" or "Microsoft virtual earth live maps" or whatever it is they've been calling their service for the past five years.
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\/adder
Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| | | Re: Helpful aerial mappng
<Reply # 11 on 6/5/2009 4:59 AM >
| | | | Posted by micro
It's about time MS realized that "bing.com" is a hell of a lot easier for people to remember than maps.live.com or "Live Search Maps" or "Microsoft virtual earth live maps" or whatever it is they've been calling their service for the past five years.
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I am used to typing "Live Maps" "Acme Maps" "Google Maps" which firefox redirects me to the appropriate website. I personally think it is a stupid domain name. They should have just bought "www.livemaps.com" from whoever currently owns it.
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
escensi omnis... |
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Strelok
Location: Alpharetta, GA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Helpful aerial mappng
<Reply # 12 on 6/6/2009 12:17 AM >
| | | | Posted by Zombasaur
Hey everyone, new to the forum. I've been using GoogleMaps to check out some areas for exploring. A few days ago, Microsoft opened their own competing search engine, and I have to say, I'm really enjoying their overhead maps! You can go into what they call a 'birds-eye' view, which isn't directly overhead, but has an angle view. Plus you can rotate it to check out all angles of an area. If you wanted to check it out, their search engine is called Bing. Hope this helps out a few people.
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I'm pretty sure this is all do-able in Google Earth. Along with street view, placemarks, 3D buildings, etc... Just go to Google and download it. Beats the shit out of any browser based program in my opinion.
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