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Google Delves Into 45° Imagery

Google Maps gets significant upgrade

Friday, July 9, 2010

By Doug Caverly

Satellite views of a town are often neat - until you realize it's hard to recognize places by their rooftops.  So Google seems to have made a wise (and possibly Microsoft-inspired) update to Google Maps by releasing what it simply calls "45° imagery."

45° imagery is quite similar to what Microsoft/Bing Maps has termed a "Bird's Eye" view.  Or, in fairness to Google, it's just what you get when Street View and a top-down view are sort of averaged out.

Anyway, a post on the LatLong Blog explained, "This type of imagery allows you to explore the sides of buildings and other locations -- you can even rotate around a particular point of interest using the compass ring to view it from four different perspectives."

Read More, see example image...
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/07/09/google-delves-into-45%C2%B0-imagery

I noticed this on Google Maps, about 6 months ago. It's pretty cool...

Don