[GIS] Bing maps viewer

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Is there a software like Google Earth Pro, but for Bing maps?

I`m interesting in historical satellite images. Google gives such opportunity to get it, their clock icon with time bar and one can see and download images obtained in previous years.

Is this possible for Bing maps?

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Bing Maps does not provide historical satellite imagery.

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Google Map Tile Optimization – Performance of Tile Creation Processes

I was having issues with gdal2tiles taking quite a while to process a fairly large (380MB, 39K x 10K pixels) tiff into Google tiles for zoom ranges 0-12. On Ubuntu 12.04 64bit without multiprocessing it took just about all day (8 hours) to process the tiff into 1.99 million tiles @ 3.3GB. Like @Stephan Talpalaru mentions above, making gdal2tiles run in parallel is the key. Make a backup of your original gdal2tiles.py, then install the patch from within the directory that houses gdal2tiles.py (mine was /usr/local/bin):

$ sudo patch -p0 -i gdal2tiles_parallelize_base_and_overview_tiles.patch

Now run gdal2tiles like you normally do. I got an incredible increase in performance, with all 4 of my cores (Intel Core i7 3.4GHz) pegged:

$ time gdal2tiles.py -p raster -z 0-12 -w none ds1105-2235df023_23_b.tif gdal-tiles12
Generating Base Tiles:
0...10...20...30...40...50...60...70...80...90...100 - done.
Generating Overview Tiles:
0...10...20...30...40...50...60...70...80...90...100 - done.

real    39m8.242s
user    104m6.808s
sys 9m16.036s

So from ~8 hours to 39 MINUTES. Game changer.

[GIS] Does Bing Maps have a 3D mode

It was abandoned in favor of "Bird's eye everywhere."

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