Another newspaper building: My office in Virtual Earth/Live Maps
By William M. Hartnett on Aug 9, 2007 in newspaper buildings
I had so much fun wasting several hours looking up newspaper buildings in Google Maps Street View that I decided to do the same thing using the oblique imagery, or “bird’s eye view,” feature in Microsoft’s Virtual Earth/Live Maps. There are loads of cities with oblique imagery coverage in Live Maps, so I’ll probably make this a regular feature starting next week. For now, I’ll kick off with my office, The Palm Beach Post:
Live Maps also has bird’s eye view coverage of quite a few European cities, such as London, so feel free to share some of your favorite media buildings on the other side of the Atlantic.
rob | Aug 9, 2007 | Reply
Not to mention Palm Beach has also been modeled by Microsoft in full 3D, so you can literally fly around this building and thousands more here… http://tinyurl.com/39jvmz Check out the Breakers Hotel - my grandmother used to work there for many years and I had no idea what it was like. Now my whole family can visit it virtually and it looks so cool!
William M. Hartnett | Aug 9, 2007 | Reply
Wow, very cool. Thanks for the tip. I’ll have to spend a few hours flying around the virtual South Florida to see if there are any gems I’ve missed from the ground.