looks like the battle between Google Earth and Microsoft's Virtual Earth might have a winner because the Redmond company's solution was chosen by Maporama as a partner in the detriment of the search giant. Maporama, a company that offers geolocalization and navigation services, was looking for a new solution to enhance its products and websites.

"It has never been so easy for a company to add value to its applications and web sites thanks to these new customized mapping solutions," said Arnaud Gstach, Virtual Earth Business Development Manager for Southern Europe. "Web 2.0 is providing new opportunities and enabling our customers to re-think their solutions by easily integrating next-generation mapping services. Now interactions between maps and data are easy and accessible to all."

As you probably know, the two solutions, Google Earth and Virtual Earth, are somehow similar because they offer almost the same functions, allowing the users to view satellite maps for free. In the recent period, both products were updated but the software giant Microsoft was more interested in the 3D side of its application.

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