Microsoft Virtual Earth >> Google Maps

**Doctor Feelgood**

Thought this was pretty cool...

I was just on the Weather Channel (which uses MS Virtual Earth for its maps) and zoomed in on a satellite image of my house. I always assumed the data would be the same or similar to what was on Google Maps, but just noticed my neighbors yard has their new pool in the picture... Which they just put in last summer. So, since the scene looks to be from early fall due to the leaves, the Microsoft image is somewhere between 2 and 14 months old, and the image currently on Google Maps is at least 4 years old, since it was taken before I bought the house.

Do you have the same image at http://maps.live.com/ as at http://maps.google.com/ ? If not, which is newer?

FOX · Posted: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:46:54 Post Subject:

aside from the fact that it took 15 minutes to zoom into my house theres a couple other things....

First of all LIVE maps are Much More detailed for my house... I will show comparisons

Both LIVE and GOOGLE HAVE MY HOUSE IN THE WRONG SPOT!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:50:49 Post Subject:

FOX · Posted: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:57:22 Post Subject:

this one is the live photo

My house was on the market for 3 days and thats when the photo was taken so that was a little over a year and a half ago for those wondering

this one is google... this sux lol

LIVE FTW!!

BeerCheeze · Posted: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:31:53 Post Subject:

Yea, Google's is the oldest.. I think it's about 5 - 7 yrs old. At least in my area. Yahoo's is about 3 - 4, and it looks like Live maybe 1 yr.

Google:

Yahoo:

Live:

Charlie · Posted: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:26:44 Post Subject:

Mine are both in the correct spots but the Live maps is much more detailed. Very cool!

Spire · Posted: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:32:29 Post Subject:

Same image used for both google and live up here in AK.

heylinder · Posted: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:40:24 Post Subject:

Both show our address in the wrong place plus the street name is spelled incorrectly. There is no "s" at the end of Oak Smile

The Live is also the most recent. The big blue blob in the front yard is a car trailer loaded with the extra siding (covered with a tarp) that we just had put on our house about a year and a half ago. Also more of our property has been cleared out behind the house since then and the old little shed is gone Smile