Google Suggests Using Microsoft MapCruncher

VirtualEarth MSDN Blog
01-29-2008, 10:40 AM
Being the Microsoft Virtual Earth Platform Evangelist, I'm all about getting the word out about Microsoft mapping products. There is a greater good in what I do, however and that is to get people using mapping. Something like 82% of all data in the world...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2008/01/29/google-suggests-using-microsoft-mapcruncher.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=7307269" width="1" height="1">

Eric Frost
01-29-2008, 11:30 AM
"...how to use Microsoft Research's (MSR) MapCruncher to generate custom tile sets for use by the Google Map API"

Google Maps and Microsoft MapCruncher (http://www.bdcc.co.uk/GoogleCrunch/Crunch.htm)

also, another quote:

"Very happily, Google Maps and MS Virtual Earth use the same map projection and tiling scheme."

 
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