Virtual Earth 3D looked like an interesting program to try out, enough so that it spurred a rare boot into Windows Vista. After half an hour of installation and rebooting I was able to fire up Virtual Earth. It's a like GoogleEarth except it has a complete 3D view of Hamilton's downtown. GoogleEarth only has a couple 3D buildings for Hamilton. You can move the view around however you want using the mouse. After another 10 minutes of my hard disk thrashing I managed to take some screenshots:
I recreated a photo I took:
The only thing Virtual Earth has on GoogleEarth is the complete 3D Hamilton. Other than that, it was really, really sluggish on my core duo 1GB RAM system, on which GoogleEarth under Linux flies. But it's worth a look if you want to have a bird's eye view of downtown Hamilton.
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