Microsoft Virtual Earth or Google Earth?

Microsoft’s Virtual Earth has partnered with DigitalGlobe to provide searchers with high-resolution mapping images. Word of this came out only two weeks after DigitalGlobe announced the renewal of its agreement with Google as one of their main suppliers of imagery. Google and DigitalGlobe have been working together since 2002.

Virtual Earth now has access to 460 million square kilometers of earth imagery with about 1 million square kilometers of images being collected from DigitalGlobe satellites daily. This growth makes DigitalGlobe one of the world’s largest catalogs of images. With how fast the world is altered with new developments, most of this new imagery goes to updating current maps.

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