Here’s your great time waster website for the day: Dronestagram. Exactly like how it sounds, it’s a website that shows you pictures taken by drones which means you get to see amazing angles of the world you’ve never seen before. It’s like being a bird or taking a helicopter tour of Dubai, France, Rio de Janeiro, Maldives and other cityscapes and countrysides from your computer.
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Everyone has wanted to fly at some point in their life. Unfortunately for most of us, watching this unbelievable trailer about Discovery’s Winged Planet is the closest we’ll ever come to actually flying. That’s okay thought because the footage is unbelievable—cameras were mounted onto birds to see life from their point of view. More »
Did you think Microsoft was done with Bing Maps updates after it threw a whopping 165TB of satellite imagery at virtual explorers? You’ve got another thing coming. The mapping crew in Redmond has thrown another 215TB of data over the fence, this time targeting its Bird’s Eye views. Most of the attention is on Australia, Europe, New Zealand and Tokyo, although Microsoft has seen fit to sharpen up some of its US visuals in the process. All told, there’s over 88,800 square miles covered by the new and updated aerial shots — enough to make sure that we’ll never have trouble finding Cinderella Castle at Tokyo Disneyland.
Bing Maps piles on 215TB of new Bird’s Eye imagery, proves it’s a small world after all originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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