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It was the Webware 100 winner this summer and the map actually looks cleaner than Google Maps. Google Maps works better across browsers and their API seems to be more popular. 3DVia is a recognized name in the CAD industry, but hasn’t had the exposure that SketchUp has. Additionally SketchUp has become a household name online that has reached designers with its simple approach to constructing models and has interested hobbyist types with its novelty. Two entities, Microsoft and Dessault, following up on technology where one entity, Google, has been driving. MapCruncher re-projects the users map, rendering correctly registered and zoomed tiles that can be mashed up seamlessly with Virtual Earth’s standard road and aerial imagery.

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Is sharing market strength a problem or solution? I see this as something that could hold back develop and affect the Microsoft/Dessault relationship negatively. PDF and raster maps can be converted in minutes just by clicking on corresponding landmarks on the users map and the global maps in Virtual Earth. This is obviously a move to compete against Google’s SketchUp and 3D warehouse, but who do you think would win? Aligning with Microsoft, as they have done in the past, is not a bad way of going about it either.

This, of course, continues Dessault’s efforts to dominate the CAD market. “This free online application, developed by Dassault Systèmes, allows consumers to imagine and create realistic 3-D models - such as of buildings and structures - then share them through Microsoft Virtual Earth and online communities.” Microsoft and Dassault Systemes announced Tuesday and Thursday that you can make 3D models inside Microsoft’s Virtual Earth with the 3DVia technology.

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