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Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Reactions to web site: Microsoft TerraServer

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At 10:57 PM, Blogger umaysay said...

Microsoft Terraserver gives me aerial photo as well as topographic map of my house and the community and the degree of longitude and latitude. It seems to have a possibility to be used for GIS since it provides aerial photo and community profile according to zip code. However, it is more likely to contribute to real estate market.

 
At 9:45 AM, Blogger Nick said...

The thing that amazes me most about this site is the money and power behind it. To put into perspective how incredible it is to have complete topo map and aerial photo coverage for most of the USA available instantly on a web interface, think of the Robinson map library here at UW. They are going through the process of scanning the aerials and topos just for the state of Wisconsin, and it's taking lots of hard-fought grant money and lots of people hours to get it done. The work is tedious and requires multi thousand dollar scanning and computing equipment. Granted the resolution and quality of the map library's project will be higher, but Terraserver has managed to get a "quick and dirty" version for the whole country! I don't think this would be possible without the 2 powerhouses of private Microsoft and governmental USGS. Scary, admittedly, but a cool project that we expect these people to do. The urban areas have great detail, often in color, which is a great feature. I also liked the latitude/longitude information, but really liked the quantity of other info that they provide uder the info heading.

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