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Re: Blogger Back Channel Event: World Wide Telescope

Nic Fillingham — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:05:38 GMT

@quikboy - "tiles" refers to the technique in which the overall 'meta' image you are viewing (virtual earth, live maps, WWT etc.) is broken down into smaller, more easily consumed chunks of graphical data instead of one gigantic single image.
Virtual Earth, Live Maps, Google Earth, WWT all use 'tiles' to store and display their imagery.
If the aerial shots of your neighbourhood are hazy/fuzzy this is probably due to the source photos being lower resolution. From what I understand the Live Maps/Virtual Earth team are constantly adding more detailed, high resolution images (tiles) to their data set so hopefully that will improve soon.

@TEN - the Back Channel events are invitation only,... ;-)

Re: Blogger Back Channel Event: World Wide Telescope

TEN — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:45:08 GMT

That was very interesting.
Where can we have future schedule for such Back channel events ?

Re: Blogger Back Channel Event: World Wide Telescope

quikboy — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:40:16 GMT

I wish the real Virtual Earth was in there. Not a bunch of "tiles". I would love to zoom in closer to my neighborhood without getting that fuzzy haze. Didn't I installed some Virtaul Earth software onto my computer, so I could view Live Maps? I kinda expect it to work in WWT as well.