 Microsoft has enhanced Live Search with a new service, Virtual
Earth giving searchers the option to display search results as
two-dimensional views or three dimensional models. However another
technology Microsoft debuted earlier this year gives it the potential
to create three dimensional images of any location from user-submitted
photographs.According to Microsoft Virtual Earth uses "new technology [that] compiles photographic images of cities and terrain to generate textured, photorealistic 3-D models with engineering level accuracy." At present Virtual Earth is available only to US users of Live Search and provides three-dimensional models of 15 US cities: San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Detroit, Phoenix, Houston, Baltimore, Atlanta, Denver, Dallas and Fort Worth. Terrain imagery in 3-D is available globally, and Microsoft says it expects to offer 3-D imagery in an ever expanding set of cities. Other features provided by Live Search include access to real-time traffic information in select major US cities, and access to business listings "Yellow Pages" and people listings "White Pages".  News source: iTWire
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