Neil Cowburn — Freelance iPhone & iPad Developer » Outdoors http://neilcowburn.com Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:25:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Virtual Earth vs Google Maps http://www.neilcowburn.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fneilcowburn.com%2F2008%2F01%2F27%2Fvirtual-earth-vs-google-maps%2F&seed_title=Virtual+Earth+vs+Google+Maps&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=virtual-earth-vs-google-maps http://www.neilcowburn.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fneilcowburn.com%2F2008%2F01%2F27%2Fvirtual-earth-vs-google-maps%2F&seed_title=Virtual+Earth+vs+Google+Maps#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:52:01 +0000 Neil http://www.neilcowburn.com/blog/2008/01/27/virtual-earth-vs-google-maps/ I’m planning on using either Virtual Earth or Google Maps for a little Ruby on Rails project so I thought I’d compare how the satellite imaging weighed up from both service providers. You can see the results below. The images are at exactly the same location (53° 5' 47.4756" N, 3° 56' 51.6294" E; aka RAC Boulders).

Mapping Comparison

I find the Virtual Earth image to be a little too bleached, while the Google Maps image is not vibrant enough to give the same level of detail as the Virtual Earth image. Which do you prefer?

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