Geotags.org > The Matterhorn War

[Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media] ) posted a comparison between Google Earth and Microsoft's new Virtual Earth 3D. The top of that post showed the Matterhorn in Virtual Earth, indicating that mountains (or at least this one) were better presented in Virtual Earth.

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps: A localization bug prevents Virtual Earth 3D from running on computers “with regional settings specifying a numeric format that used commas instead of decimal points.” Sigh. Stefan Geens does a comparative review with Google Earth, in considerable detail. (via Cosmos)

http://www.digitalgeography.co.uk  Digital Geography: The site is fast and very easy to use, and sharing placemarks is very easy. I see this being used a lot in the classroom, where Google Earth is not available, or where the resolution is inadequate. (via Cosmos)

http://www.spatialdatalogic.com/CS/blogs/brian_flood  Brian Flood: However, it’s pretty trivial to embed this in other windows applications and I would guess MS will create a standalone version in the future. The main point I see from this is that MS is actively courting the developer market while Google seems content on concentrating solely on the consumer directly. (via Cosmos)

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