Pictometry Will Provide Microsoft with Aerial Images
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Pictometry Will Provide Microsoft with Aerial Images

Pictometry International Corp. (NY, USA) has announced that it has signed a five-year agreement with Microsoft Corp. (WA, USA). Under terms of the agreement, Pictometry will license existing and new nationwide aerial images to Microsoft to be incorporated into MSN Virtual Earth and other MapPoint product offerings.


On Monday, 23 May 2005 at the 3D conference in Carlsbad, CA, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates presented his vision of MSN Virtual Earth, an exciting new component of Microsoft's Search vision that incorporates unique aerial imagery from Pictometry's imaging database.


Primarily used by government and private businesses, Pictometry captures up to 12 different views of any building, highway, or other land feature in an area. While traditional satellite and aerial photography is primarily straight down, or orthogonal, Pictometry's all-digital images are taken at an angle, called oblique. This presents aerial photographs in a 3D-like manner. As a result, Pictometry's image databases of cities, counties, and states provides a more information-rich source of visual data for its customers, and at a significant cost savings compared to computer modelling systems of municipalities.

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