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Apple Campus Missing From MSN Earth

Posted by timothy on from the take-a-memo-take-a-joke dept.

webguru4god writes "The Register has an article detailing a significant omission from Microsoft's new Virtual Earth application. Apparently the satellite image view of 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino, CA shows a large empty lot, whereas Google Maps shows the sprawling Apple campus. Hmmm, I wonder if the Google campus is missing too?"

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  1. There's a good reason for that by Tom7 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yeah, well, the MSN maps are much older (I think the USGS ones from the mid-early 1990s) than the Google ones. For instance, it shows Carnegie Mellon's campus without many of its current buildings.

  2. World Trade Center too by maddh · · Score: 0, Redundant
    They have old World Trade Center photos too.

    http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?ss=World% 20Trade%20Center&cp=40.7125|-74.011994&style=h&lvl =17&sp=adr.7609%2010th%20Ave%2C%20Brooklyn%2C%20NY %2011228&v=1

    I still like google's interface better, seems a little cleaner.