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TerraServer-USA
online repository[1] of public domain aerial imagery and satellite imagery, formerly known as Microsoft TerraServer

Terraserver.com
Thus the Microsoft product became known as Microsoft TerraServer and more recently TerraServer-USA, while the Aerial Images company remained known simply as Terraserver.com. Microsoft stuck with USGS aerial imagery, while Aerial Images hosted the SPIN-2 and GeoEye satellite data. As a result, Microsoft lost virtually all of its foreign imagery.

Microsoft MapPoint

Microsoft MapPoint is both a technology and a specific software program created by Microsoft yearly that allows users to view, edit and integrate maps. This mapping software is designed to visualize and analyze either included data or custom data geographically.
MapPoint is intended for business users but competes in the low-end GIS market. It includes all of the functionality of Microsoft Streets and Trips as well as integration with Microsoft Office, data mapping from various sources including Microsoft Excel and a Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) interface allowing automation of the MapPoint environment.


Foley’s Collaboratory
not ready yet

Mapstraction
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Mapstraction is a Javascript library started by Tom Carden and Steve Coast with encouragement from Mikel Maron. It provides a single API to display maps in a web browser. As of October 2006 it supports switching between Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!s javascript mapping APIs. There are also plans to extend Mapstraction to support OpenStreetMap in the future.
As the name suggests, the code is designed to make it as easy as possible to abstract the Javascript code required to display a map. A developer can code their application once, then switch between online map providers by changing a single attribute in a single line of code. The rest of the application remains unchanged, but the underlying map calls are automatically changed by Mapstraction to match the new map API provider.
In June 2006 the British vertical real-estate search engine Nestoria announced they were sponsoring Mapstraction. Steve Coast mentioned Mapstraction in his Where 2.0 presentation on OpenStreetMap[2].

Mobile GMaps
Mobile GMaps is a free piece of software that displays Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth maps and satellite imagery on Java-enabled mobile phones, PDAs or other devices.