Originally posted by acura_el2000
well, major cities so far, but it will expand I'm sure.
wouldn't major cities be the main threat from terroists tho?
Well, that was my attempt at a sarcastic comment to underscore the new tool's great utility to evil people.
personally, I would rather have google finish hi-res of the entire globe first.. how I'd love to look at tribes in africa etc.
Well it seems like Microsoft is actually taking the initiative in high-resolution aerial photography. Their "Live.com" maps have a feature to see a
non-vertical images of the land you are looking at. The resolution is at least twice that of the highest resolution Google Maps images. There are
actually four different images - one from each of the cardinal directions - for each high-resolution location. Unlike Google Maps I can actually see
people on these high-resolution photographs.
Here is the statue of liberty:
Statue of Liberty
On the little toolbar that loads up over the map you can click the second image down from the top on the left side (it looks like buildings sticking
up) and that will give you the 4 different extremely close-up views.
Combine Microsoft's high res perspective photographs with Google's streetview and some nice software to splatter the images on extrapolated 3d
buildings (ala Google's and MS's 3D city maps) and you have a complete virtual USA that can be driven through.
Jon
I would think it's imposible? It
would be cool tho. 
