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Friday, December 12. 2008

Redfin Leaves Virtual Earth for Google Maps

The real estate site at one time used a mix of the two, but now has gone 100% Google due to speed. The story "broke" on the Redfin website, where the blogger speaks very positively of the work with Microsoft.

This bit lays out the basic pros and cons:

We like a lot of things about going with Google Maps:

Fast downloads
Fast drawing speeds
Broad browser support
High-resolution Geoeye-1 satellite images
We don’t like that we can no longer embed Bird’s Eye views on our site and that 3 developers spent four weeks to do the switch instead of adding more features.

I'm not sure how they can like GeoEye-1 images since they are not online yet...

Part of the reason for the departure at this point? The ending of a two year contract with Microsoft. There's also a post on the switch from a developer perspective on the Redfin developer blog.
- Computerworld

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google, Microsoft at 06:00 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) | Bookmark and Share

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We have contributed over 1,000,000 high resolution buildings to Google Earth which will enhance the Real Estate Shopping experience tremendously! Check out our 3D Cities list on our web site!

www.cybercity3d.com

Kevin DeVito 310-760-2556
#1 Kevin DeVito (Link) on 2008-12-31 10:09 (Reply)

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