MSN Virtual Earth takes on Google Maps

From Channel9 spent some time today interviewing the Virtual Earth team. This is MSN's answer to Google Maps, coming in July 2005. As you see in the video MSN Virtual Earth goes noticeably further than Google Maps or other mapping services.

Later today we'll put the video I shot of them up on Channel 9.

Here's first look: WMV video of Virtual Earth Team. 133MB. Video length: 00:32:53.

Also, there have been a ton of news stories about Virtual Earth. Here's some links:
News.com article on Virtual Earth.


This stuff is mondo cool!

Pilots using Tablet PCs

Scoble wrote Looking around airport I find a FliteStarWhenever I'm in an airport I look at anyone doing something with a computer. I try to see if there's anything new to learn. Tonight I saw a guy sitting in Seattle's airport with a Tablet PC. Now, that no longer is a rare site in airports, so if that was all, it wouldn't be that interesting, but on his screen was a cool mapping program that I had never seen before and a GPS unit was plugged into the side (it was a Motion Tablet PC, by the way). So, I walked up to him and...

"How do you like your Tablet PC?"

"I love it."

"What program is that?"

"It's FliteStar. I'm a pilot and I use this to plot out my flight plan."

"Why a Tablet PC?"

"Because I can use it in ways that a laptop wouldn't and using a pen to interact with the map makes more sense than a touchpad."

Anyway, the FliteStar does a whole bunch of stuff for pilots. Shows glide paths, elevations, flight routes, and other things. Really cool app.