August 7th 2008 7:52 pm PT
Flying the UltraCam (or how Virtual Earth gets those images)
Behind The Maps – Flying the UltraCam
Mark Brown on the Virtual Earth team has an interesting post and video (above) that give you a behind the scenes look at the UltraCam and the process involved in getting those high resolution images (Bird’s Eye View) that are used in Virtual Earth. If you are a geek who likes maps (like me) you may enjoy this.
Update: If you don’t want to install Silverlight to see the video, here are versions in other flavors:
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