{"id":472,"date":"2005-12-09T10:52:14","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T18:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/absolutely-amazing"},"modified":"2005-12-09T10:52:14","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T18:52:14","slug":"absolutely-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/absolutely-amazing\/","title":{"rendered":"Absolutely Amazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has just upped the ante again in what has, for me, become the most interesting battle between Google and Microsoft yet: displaying ariel photography. This time, Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/live.local.com\">Windows Live Local<\/a> provides &#8220;Birds Eye&#8221; views of (from what I have seen so far) much of King County, and perhaps other places as well. The Bird&#8217;s Eye views differ from regular ariel photography in that they are much higher resolution, and intentionally at an angle &#8212; so a North-facing view is significiantly different than a south-facing view. The images produced are truly incredible:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/local.live.com\/default.aspx?v=2&#038;cp=47.655892~-122.309075&#038;style=o&#038;lvl=1&#038;scene=3693578\">Red  Square (Univeristy of Washington)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/local.live.com\/default.aspx?v=2&#038;cp=47.653752~-122.309766&#038;style=o&#038;lvl=2&#038;scene=3693576\">Where I will be in about 30 minutes (Chem Library, UW)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More later, class calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has just upped the ante again in what has, for me, become the most interesting battle between Google and Microsoft yet: displaying ariel photography. This time, Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Live Local provides &#8220;Birds Eye&#8221; views of (from what I have seen so far) much of King County, and perhaps other places as well. The Bird&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,8],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-recommended","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}