Birds Eye View
One of my favorite features of Live Maps is the Birds Eye view. It boggles the mind to think about the level of effort required to get actual photos of every spot from four directions. Channel9 has video interview posted with the company that does the photos for Microsoft. It sort of feels like mowing the lawn from 10,000 feet.
In this second episode of Behind The Maps we go to Philadelphia to see the UltraCam in action. One of our partners, Keystone Aerial Surveys, shows us the next step in the process where the UltraCam is used to capture imagery for Virtual Earth.
This is a little bit of a long episode because there are three interviews in one video, but really fun to watch and TONS of great information on the next step in our journey on how we bring Virtual Earth to life.