More on google v. Microsoft

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Joab Jackson <jjackson () postnewsweektech com>
Date: July 26, 2005 3:26:29 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: RE: [IP] More on google v. Microsoft


Dave,

For several years now, Microsoft has run the TerraServer
(http://terraserver.microsoft.com/) which hosts satellite maps of the
U.S. that were generated by the US Geological Survey. I suspect
Microsoft is using those photos for its own service, and, since these
are in the public domain, so is Google. I don't know what other sources
they would be using, but the fact that there is some overlap is not
surprising.


joab

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From: "Dr. James J. O'Donnell" <provost () georgetown edu>
Date: July 26, 2005 10:54:45 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: google v. Microsoft



earth.google.com v. virtualearth.msn.com

Dave, be interested to hear comment from qualified observers.  I have
one
point to note:  if you look at the White House in both services, you'll
find two interesting things.  (1) Both have had the roofs of the White
House, EOB, and Treasury airbrushed out.  (2) If you look closely at the
cars and people on Pennsylvania Ave. in front of the WH, you will see
that
the two photos are in fact identical.  On some sampling, this is not
true
elsewhere, but it raises the question of just whose data they are both
using.

Jim O'Donnell
Georgetown U.


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