New features of Virtual Earth
Immersive Imagery- Virtual Earth provides precise views of the entire world via the bird’s eye view. It shows improved and accurate three-dimensional resolutions. The detailed imagery makes immersive end user experiences that bring the location based info to life.
More precise three dimensional experiences- the latest release of the Virtual Earth contains the map details of Phoenix, Las Vegas, Denver, Dallas, etc. it has progressive improvement in its three dimensional model accuracy and resolution details. You can now reveal building textures, small terrain features, more number of buildings, trees; etc that enhances the complete realism. It is claimed that such an enhanced 3D map detail will be soon coming out in about 250 cities where such 3D models are available.
Tailored 3D tours- the video output of the 3D fly can be customized by the media producers by having tours in 6 resolutions at a time period of 20-30 frames per second. This new feature also allows you to add the photos, hide or display the pushpin icons.
Bird’s Eye View in 3D- the users of Virtual Earth can easily have a close look by the bird’s eye view on or off for a wonderful end user experience.
Bird’s Eye Hybrid View- in this new version, you will be able to choose a novel style of map known as bird’s eye view hybrid. This map adds the street names to the maps that give you a good orientation as well as visual context.
Enhanced Location Functionality- the new release of the Virtual Earth offers its users a host of new and unusual characteristics that displays the different direction in a number of languages. This enables the users to know quickly where they are going. These enhanced tools offer more control and flexibility on the location’s development and solutions.
New Walking Directions- even if you are going on your foot, the users of European Union and North America will be able to find the direct routes, that they could walk on to reach their destination faster; without considering the medians, one way streets, or other such obligations that are applicable to the motor vehicles.
Improved Localized Directions- the users of the Virtual Earth will now be provided with the walking directions or localized driving in about more than fifteen languages. This would include Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and many others.
New Reverse Geocoding- the users of Virtual Earth in the United States will now be able to search the nearby address of the street depending on the latitudes and longitudes coordinates from a geospatial device or a GPS.
The features of Virtual Earth don’t end here. It has an enhanced infrastructure. The platform of Virtual Earth is also designed for the enterprise user. It enhances the platform infrastructure to reach more and more number of users with its new cross browser support.
There is an interactive SDK that will demonstrate these new and latest features and functions of the Virtual Earth to its users. With the updated interactive SDK, the customers are now able to access the Virtual Earth Interactive SDK online to view or download and also to demonstrate the novel functions of the map control in Virtual Earth.
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