Virtual Earth 3D News - New Cities, greater detail

<p>If you read the Digital Urban blog, you're already pretty much caught up on on recent VE3D news, including a simple tutorial for creating very high res cityscape panoramas with Virtual Earth. Check out this <a href="http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/search/label/Virtual Earth" target="_blank"><strong>thread of posts at Digital Urban</strong></a> for videos of newly launched 3D cities, the tutorial, obscure tips (CTRL-Q for first person!), and some great insights into the building of a realistic virtual world such as the subtle tweaks the 3DI team made in modeling low, dense cities like Toulouse France. <p><a href="http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=45.510222~-73.553453&style=h&lvl=19&tilt=-28.8767469440375&dir=166.135797082568&alt=170.613491639495&scene=12400334&encType=1" target="_blank">The Old Port of Montreal</a><br><a href="http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=45.510222~-73.553453&style=h&lvl=19&tilt=-28.8767469440375&dir=166.135797082568&alt=170.613491639495&scene=12400334&encType=1" target="_blank"><img style="border-right:0px;border-top:0px;border-left:0px;border-bottom:0px" height=395 alt=image src="http://byfiles.storage.msn.com/y1pTcqBXnZTBA9k2bgKbzFNy7pCI3uY9zvKpgggexS5jYmOgx1 8K8uIktzmmWP4z82WOM7t0GaR51I" width=590 border=0></a> <p>And a note for application developers - <a href="http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/" target="_blank">the VE API</a> gives you full control over the Virtual Earth for embedding into your own web applications. <p><a href="http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=43.602704~1.441498&style=h&lvl=19&tilt=-41.942487948992&dir=338.432110384649&alt=371.704221070744&scene=11031942&encType=1" target="_blank">Toulouse, France</a><br><a href="http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=43.602704~1.441498&style=h&lvl=19&tilt=-41.942487948992&dir=338.432110384649&alt=371.704221070744&scene=11031942&encType=1" target="_blank"><img style="border-right:0px;border-top:0px;border-left:0px;border-bottom:0px" height=383 alt=image src="http://byfiles.storage.msn.com/y1pTcqBXnZTBA8y0E0E04IaPXFkc1GJQ8xKKjU4CG1nD3fk5sL Dz_qAhmFnSiRSTE71O1h0VH10klw" width=590 border=0></a><img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3151506992847969176&page=RSS%3a+Virtual+Earth+3D+News+-+New+Cities%2c+greater+detail&referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""><img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&NA=1149&PI=88469&RF=&DI=3919&PS=85545&TP=virtualearth.spaces.live.com&GT1=virtualearth">

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