Microsoft Adds Photosynth To Virtual Earth
May 7, 2009 at 2:54pm ET by Matt McGee
Microsoft's innovative Photosynth technology has been integrated into Virtual Earth, marking the first time Photosynth has been available for commercial use.
Photosynth is a tool that lets users upload regular photos and then stitches those photos into 3-D scenes of whatever the photos depict. Our Greg Sterling has previously shown some Photosynth screenshots and called it "pretty amazing stuff."
Microsoft says that two early customers using Photosynth via its integration with Virtual Earth are NASA and VisitBrighton. Here's one screenshot of how NASA is using Photosynth to show the Inte [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing Maps & Local, Microsoft: Photosynth
Microsoft Releases Large Volume Of New Images For Maps
Mar 30, 2009 at 10:46am ET by Greg Sterling
Virtual Earth, which has been somewhat in the shadow of Google Maps and Earth released a large volume of new images for Live Search Maps for a range of countries and cities around the globe.
The imagery allows you to get in very close, so you can see how far your hotel is exactly from the beach in Cannes, for example:
Live Search Maps has not received as much attention as Google Maps but the site has improved greatly over time in terms of usability and accuracy. It's also much faster than before.
Both Google and Microsoft offer satellite imagery, which is often not that us [...]
Filed in: Google: Maps & Local, Microsoft: Bing Maps & Local, Microsoft: Outside US, Microsoft: Photosynth
Microsoft Taking On Google Street View With “GeoSynth”?
Mar 24, 2009 at 5:29pm ET by Greg Sterling
Since it was introduced more than two years ago, Microsoft's innovative Photosynth technology has been "under-leveraged." I've written a number of times about Photosynth and its potential. Now, according to an article in Fast Company, Microsoft is going to compete more aggressively with Google StreetView by soliciting user-generated photos and then geotagging and Photosynthing them. The effort is reportedly called "Geosynth":
Microsoft is going to find its images from someone else, namely, you. Essentially GeoSynth is going to function as a mashup between Microsoft's Virtual Earth maps system [...]
Filed in: Google: Maps & Local, Microsoft: Bing Maps & Local, Microsoft: Photosynth
Google Maps Adds User Photos To Street View
Feb 26, 2009 at 10:34am ET by Greg Sterling
Google has added geo-tagged Panoramio photos to StreetView images. According to the Google LatLong Blog it's done automatically:
Google's image-matching algorithms will analyze them at some point to see if they are also a good match for a Street View location.
Google has offered images on Maps for some time, but not directly integrated into StreetView like this.
A thumbnail appears in the upper right of the StreetView image (see below). Clicking it opens a new view of the location with a horizontal scrolling bar of images. Users can click any of the images to enlarge. Google is implying [...]
Filed in: Google: Maps & Local, Microsoft: Bing Maps & Local, Microsoft: Photosynth, Top News
Microsoft Integrates Photosynth Into Live Maps
Nov 6, 2008 at 8:41am ET by Barry Schwartz
Channel 10 reports Microsoft has integrated Photosynth into Live Maps.
Greg covered Photosynth when it first went public, he described it as a "totally cool" tool that allows Windows users to upload photos, "the technology automatically "synths" them, creating a 3-D, 360-degree interactive photo collage of whatever the photographs depict."
Microsoft has now integrated it with Live Maps and you can see live examples in Seattle, Vatican city, at the Leaning tower of Pisa and many more places. Greg Sterling posted additional screen captures at his personal blog.
In other Microsoft mappi [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing Maps & Local, Microsoft: Photosynth, Top News
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