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Aerial photos of the IGN ubiquitous, yes, but ...

For several months, aerial photos of the IGN invade the main sites of digital mapping. Besides the Geoportal, aerial photos of the IGN and can be viewed in Microsoft VirtualEarth following an agreement signed and made official in April 2008 and past few weeks in Google Maps and Google Earth .
Imagine the pride (perhaps also the economic interest) of the National Institute have managed to be present, even ubiquitous, in these great sites digital mapping and virtual globes associated with them, it who, on leaving the Geoportail boasted in 2006 to become a "Google Earth to the French."
A ticket on May 14 at Google Maps showed the Millau viaduct among sites in France, had been an update of the database of images, s' pressing aerial photos of the IGN.

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Now it is clear that Google Maps and Google Earth that share the same aerial image from IGN, these images are not the freshest since the Millau viaduct There appears at the beginning of its construction. Only the first two bridge piers are visible to aerial images dating from the late 2002/early 2003 IGN.

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virual On Earth (pardon Bing Maps), the images from IGN are no more fresh, either in 2D or 3D.

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For its part, the site of the IGN Geoportal do not have more recent images, maps at 1 / 25 000 indicating that the route of the project and base map cartographic scale indicating even a portion of highway ending in cul de sac at the end of the viaduct ...

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Luckily 3D models created with SketchUp are available such as it or that it can have a 3D image of the book art, more or less approximate, but to enrich and update at least partially that virtual globes and digital mapping sites claim to be a virtual image of reality. Recall that the Millau viaduct was inaugurated 14 December 2004 and commissioned two days after ...