Microsoft’s Earth Explorer and its comparison to other earth explorers
Earth Explorer from Microsoft gives you 3Dimensional view of the earth. It has a browser plugin for internet explorer 6.0 or later versions. It is one of the compatible earth explorers for windows xp or vista versions
Some of the advantages of Microsoft‘s earth explorer is it gives 3 D view of the mountains with lot more detail
With earth Explorer of Microsoft you can save any URL, send it, or bookmark it. You can add snapshot to the view and you can also send and save any view
You can take advantage of keyboard controls to look up above the horizon, move up and down, in addition to zoom in and zoom out you can rotate and pan globe
There is another controller called Xbox controller it provides a cooler and cheaper way to use earth explorer
Microsoft Earth explorer provide facility for both 2D and 3 D maps, the maps are really cool and clear in picture because they are based on Microsoft technology which is based on user friendliness. It provide easy way to control over picture than to use Google earth
Microsoft earth explorer is based on COM based technology which is one of the successful and advance technologies , provide much more game like approach to maps
Creating and sharing of place marks in Microsoft‘s earth explorer is much more easy than Google earth. but Google earth provides much more complicated and sophisticated tools to edit images. Google earth also provides much more flexibility to add an overlay, a GPS track, 3D object and to refresh content
Microsoft‘s earth explorer provide 45 degree bird’s – eye views but it is not as sharp as Google‘s earth Explorer (Google Earth). Google earth provides more facility to read data from many places through local media
Microsoft‘s earth explorer (Virtual Globe) can automatically detect configuration setting like operating system, web browser, and plug ins etc. virtual Explorer does not support anti aliasing so flat horizons can show pixel effects
With Microsoft Earth explorer you can not rotate the globe across the poles which is one of the major drawback of this earth explorer software
As we compare to Google ‘s earth explorer ( Google Earth ) , Microsoft ‘s virtual globe lack in compatibility and functionality, but now Microsoft is trying to make one of first class virtual globe by increasing its speed and providing cross platform compatibility. It will certainly help to make one of the first class 3D API software
As compare to Google Earth ,Microsoft ‘s earth explorer is slow and gives low resolution . and also Google Earth‘s compression algorithms are much smarter than its counterpart virtual globe
If we compare Virtual Globe to skyline Globe which also has plug ins and it is more compatible to various versions of windows like windows 98, 2000 , xp and vista versions. It is compatible not only to internet explorer but also to mazilla and opera browsers. It also provide various API’s and ability to render WFS ,KML,WML ,Geotiff and SHP files and live video[tags] other satellite map software [Tags]Tags: Microsoft Virtual Earth
