A cool free map offering has been updated by Microsoft.Nice textures, virtual billboards as a creative ad method. Check out the 3D world around you or even a 2D map view for directions.
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx
http://virtualearth.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2BBC66E99FDCDB98!7694.entry
Virtual Earth 3D -The next dimension in search! Well, at least the third dimension 🙂
Channel 9’s coverage of Virtual Earth 3D
My shared Autodesk University 2006 Map
One interesting thing I noticed is you can hover your Virtual Earth cursor over a 3D building and you can get the rough height. Now I need to find out how I can write 3D files to Virtual Earth.
