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Re: MS Virtual Earth

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Originally Posted by Flubflow

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Originally Posted by Paul

Strange, works here, have you tried a proxy shuffle?

Makes no difference.

Things like DirectX etc up to date? Don't suppose you want to upgrade your Browser do you?
Have you any firewalls etc running that could be interrupting the image load?

Re: MS Virtual Earth

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Originally Posted by Paul

Things like DirectX etc up to date? Don't suppose you want to upgrade your Browser do you?
Have you any firewalls etc running that could be interrupting the image load?

Latest DirectX.
Perhaps it is the browser version and/or the o/s. I've tried it so far on systems Windows98 (with MS Java) and Windows ME (with Sun Java). Since I don't have XP on the computers here and I don't fancy trying IE6 on these operating systems, I'd rather leave it.

Re: MS Virtual Earth

Can you try Firefox? Your not missing much though lol.

Re: MS Virtual Earth

Just seen this posted on another forum
Linky

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The day after launching a new Web-based mapping service, Microsoft has responded to critics by pledging to do better.
Visitors to MSN Virtual Earth pointed out that VE's depiction of the place where Apple Computer has its headquarters is an empty field. Google's mapping service shows buildings; presumably stuffed with iPods, remarked the UK's Register Web site.
"Even more disturbing MSN's Virtual Earth still shows the twin towers of the World Trade Center in all their pre-9/11 glory," the Register added. Apple HQ on MSN. On Google. MSN's Twin Towers.
Steve Lombardi, who writes a blog for the Virtual Earth team, concedes some of the imagery in the MSN product is from the early '90s -- before Apple built its campus. He offers some examples of where the Microsoft product is better than Google's. "We know there's a lot of room for improvement, and that's exactly what we're up to," he wrote." We're already working with our imagery partners to incrementally improve. Over the coming weeks you'll see a lot of these improvements rolling out."

MS Virtual Earth Blog