Virtual Earth arrives

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Virtual Earth arrives · Proposed air date:

Dr. Dave describes the public beta of Microsoft Virtual Earth as a free combination of aerial photographs, maps, directory data and location detection. The segment captures an early stage of online mapping before bird’s eye imagery and many now familiar sharing features were finished.

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This excerpt runs from 6:21.058 to 8:22.046 within its preserved source recording.

Proposed recording date: 2005-07-30. The exact broadcast date may differ.

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