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msg:3525949 | 4:35 pm on Dec 12, 2007 (gmt 0) |
"Multimap will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, as part of the Virtual Earth and Search teams in the Online Services Group" Microsoft Acquires Multimap [microsoft.com] [multimap.com...]
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rmay
msg:3525999 | 5:24 pm on Dec 12, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Not bad... and they seem to have more recent map data for Canada! Google still hasn't displayed the west side of my street that was completed two years ago. ;)
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nickreynolds
msg:3526118 | 7:15 pm on Dec 12, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Shame - Google getting more of a monopoly on more things
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Peanut Butter Wolf
msg:3526178 | 8:24 pm on Dec 12, 2007 (gmt 0) |
MC's too late again. This doesn't touch Goog Maps...
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conor
msg:3526357 | 12:27 am on Dec 13, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Dunno ... MM has coverage where G doesn't and I have seen sites intergrate MM in a more appealing way than GMaps.
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Jeroen van de Wiel
msg:3526559 | 8:37 am on Dec 13, 2007 (gmt 0) |
It's a shame, no one remembers Microsoft Terraserver (1999). They were once a leap ahead of everyone else and Google Earth.
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Whitey
msg:3527432 | 5:58 am on Dec 14, 2007 (gmt 0) |
We evaluated it recently - a good product with many advanced features and different data sets over the same area, but expensive. If Microsoft can leverage the features and offer it for free to compete with Google, it will probably be adopted well and become a strong player in online mapping . Still, the street level 3-D locational data that Google is rolling out is another key to be equalled IMO. [edited by: Whitey at 5:59 am (utc) on Dec. 14, 2007]
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Robert Charlton
msg:3533743 | 6:38 am on Dec 23, 2007 (gmt 0) |
| This doesn't touch Goog Maps... |
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I agree, at least in my neighborhood. Not even remotely close. It's slower, glitchier, and doesn't zoom in as far.
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