dak4.com - Google Maps vs. Virtual Earth Round 2

Friday, July 29, 2005

Neither is ready for international prime time, in my humble opinion.

Google has the goods on satellite photos of Makassar, Indonesia; but no details on roads, place names, etc. etc.

Virtual Earth totally knows where Makassar is, but the satellite photo sucks, and the interface won't allow zooming in past the halfway point.

Friday, July 29, 2005 12:14:17 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

Comments [6] -
www

Friday, July 29, 2005 1:00:24 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

You are aware that neither Google nor Microsoft actually takes the pictures, right?

:)

David A. Kearns

Friday, July 29, 2005 2:12:15 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

But they do get to choose what they want when they buy them.

Kearns

Friday, July 29, 2005 2:20:06 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

They take the latest available. Talk to ESRI (http://www.esri.com/) about getting better images...

:)

David A. Kearns

Friday, July 29, 2005 4:17:21 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

Are Ujung Pandang and Makassar the same thing?

Also, Celebes looks like a giant "K" (for "Kearns"?).

Joe Grossberg

Friday, July 29, 2005 4:38:15 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

Oh, yeah.

Makassar changed it's name to Ujung Pandang a while back, and then a few years ago changed it's name back to Makassar.

And it's Sulawesi now, and has been for quite a while, not Celebes. (I think that ended in '45 when the Dutch left)

Though tea from Sulawesi is still called "Celebes"...

Kearns

Friday, July 29, 2005 4:42:50 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

Hmm ... my National Geographic map from 2004 still has the colonial name ... weird.

Joe Grossberg

Comments are closed.