James Fee GIS Blog

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• 1 josh // Nov 6, 2006 at 8:33 pm

  Look around and you’ll find more, un-listed, 3D “eye candy” for quite a few US cities (including topographic relief in the Rockies). There are 3D elements in a few international cities as well, including London, Paris, Munich, Rome, Sydney, and more. Didn’t see anything for India, China, or Russia. Zoom over Japan, and Roman alphabet is instantly replaced with Japanese characters. Pretty cool.

  The downloads are fast, but I find that the maps in 3D mode are blurrier/lower-res when compared to 2D mode.

• 2 Frank Taylor // Nov 7, 2006 at 5:49 am

  Ok…here’s to the 3DWarehouse.

• 3 Frank Taylor // Nov 7, 2006 at 5:50 am

  Repost (fixing broken link)…

  Here’s your connection to the 3DWarehouse.

• 4 The Earth Is Square » Blog Archive » New Virtual Earth a ‘Google Earth “threat?”‘ and World Wind // Nov 7, 2006 at 6:14 am

  [...] As I mentioned in brief yesterday and covered by GIS bloggers all over the new 3D beta of Virtual Earth is out now.  Now, the Google Earth blog sees it as no threat all all but looking at the comparisons that James Fee posted.. I am wondering. [...]

• 5 mapperz // Nov 7, 2006 at 9:03 am

  VE4 is a bit clunky, after getting the plug-in to work. Works in IE6/7 only.

  Skyline Globe is another 3D mapping app which likes FF.

  So now we are waiting for Google Earth 5 Webversion…

  but they are free… just.

  mapperz

• 6 James Fee // Nov 7, 2006 at 9:07 am

  Thanks for the link Frank, but I don’t understand why they can’t add this into the default application. The 3D Warehouse is the killer feature in GE’s pocket and they make it so hard for average users to access it.

• 7 brain // Nov 7, 2006 at 9:45 am

  Why don’t you compare Microsoft’s Virtual Earth BETA version with Google Earth’s BETA version 4? Google Earth version 4 has high detail buildings too.

• 8 James Fee // Nov 7, 2006 at 9:50 am

  Brian, how do you enable the high detail buildings? Mine are just the grey blocks. I know you can download new ones from the 3D Warehouse, but I’m thinking they should be enabled by default when I turn on the buildings.

  I revisited this and added a better comparison taking into consideration the 3D models available at the 3D Warehouse.

• 9 Adam Hill // Nov 7, 2006 at 10:01 am

  mapperz: Skyline does not “like” FF any better. It is just launching the Skyline ActiveX control as an application in Windows.

• 10 Cary P // Nov 7, 2006 at 12:34 pm

  With a 3.2Ghz system, plenty of memory and a T3 connection, I’ve been waiting dozens of minutes waiting to see any building information other than blue blocks. How long does one have to wait to see something worthwhile? Is it always SOOOoo SLooooow?

• 11 James Fee // Nov 7, 2006 at 12:55 pm

  A T3 connection does you no good if you are competing against millions of others with a T3.

  Network performance needs to be addressed for sure.

• 12 Microsoft rilascia Virtual Earth 3D « fascox.weblog // Nov 7, 2006 at 1:00 pm

  [...] Google Earth comparison [...]

• 13 Larry Renolds // Nov 7, 2006 at 1:20 pm

  James, who is your host for this website? Considering that it is probably getting hammered by Slashdot, I’m impressed with it not going down or being slow.

• 14 James Fee // Nov 7, 2006 at 1:28 pm

  Pair Networks is my host. I’ve used them since early 1997.

• 15 anon // Nov 7, 2006 at 3:44 pm

  Come on James, get off the Kool-aid. Anything that requires IE is dead. Google Earth doesn’t require IE even on Windows.

• 16 James Fee // Nov 7, 2006 at 3:47 pm

  While it is true that VE does require Internet Explorer, you don’t need IE to run the application. Just Microsoft runs it inside IE. Take a look here for an example that doesn’t require you to run IE. The whole Microsoft Live thing is what you are unhappy about and if a year from now there is still no FF support, maybe I’ll agree with you.

  Google Earth, World Wind, ArcGIS Explorer and Virtual Earth 3D all require you to download an application and install it. Some of the above are Windows only for sure, but I don’t think there is a digital earth application that runs in a browser that doesn’t require some sort of installation.

  Look, some of your need to get beyond this “M$ = BAD” mentality. One needs a much more open mind than some of you are showing.

• 17 dailywireless.org » Microsoft’s Amazing Virtual Earth // Nov 7, 2006 at 5:40 pm

  [...] Google Earth (below) on the Las Vegas strip. [...]

• 18 Ric // Dec 30, 2006 at 7:57 pm

  Google Earth I found better photo quality

• 19 feras // Apr 12, 2007 at 9:07 am

  iwant download google earth

• 20 Chris C. // Apr 12, 2007 at 9:21 am

  @ feras

  Find it at Google Earth home page.

• 21 Madjid Toubal // Sep 9, 2007 at 3:48 am

  I need to understand how can I download the virtual google Earth 3D. Thanks

• 22 Mondo // Sep 10, 2007 at 12:01 am

  Choices:
  for speed go with Google earth 4.2 (beta), its more faster and reliable

  link: >>http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

  for quality go with Microsoft Virtual Earth 3d (beta)

  link >> http://local.live.com/ >> then click and the 3d button and it’ll give another link to download from!

  enjoi!!!

• 23 Stashiu // Feb 17, 2008 at 5:05 pm

  I like how Google has 3rd party sites create contest.

• 24 Stashiu // Feb 17, 2008 at 5:37 pm

  besides google is better with Poland for example. I could see vavel in cracow and warsaw way clearer than trough Virtual Earth. Although VE is clearer when viewing USA.

• 25 ALAA AHMED // Apr 21, 2008 at 5:59 am

  I NEED THE LAST VERSION OF GOOGLE EARTH

• 26 Ade Wahyu Ramdhani // May 12, 2008 at 11:00 pm

  i like google earth. i can see my house from this. google earth pro free download please.

• 27 sabhay // May 14, 2008 at 12:09 am

  i like it most i like to download it.as it is familier to as it is very clear .i want that it would be very like to the people of the world.

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