[ale] [OT] maps from Microsoft

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Jerry Yu wrote:
> I stumbled to Microsoft's "new" maps site. The image is of photo-quality.
> They really zoomed in! In comparison, Google maps is more like a
> low-resolution war map played on analog TV.  http://maps.live.com/

Maybe it's my old eyes, but the images look identical to me, expect the 
google map colors are sharper.  It also appears to me that when I zoom 
to the maximum, the images are identical in size.

I wonder how old the maps are.  Looking at my house, I see that my fence 
is not in the image.  It's been there for at least 8 years.

It appears they are both using the same images as the arrangement of 
vehicles in the driveways is identical.

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Tina