You really have to---

[barryward12345 0]

compare the maps from the different Service providers - depending on just where in the world you want to fly.I had been doing a lot of flying in the US and found that I was getting good overall textures from Service 3 . But I decided to do a bit of flying in Israel - it is great to use TP to see parts of the world that are famous (for various reasons) - great geography lesson. But I found that I was getting all sorts of strange and unusual error messages when loading up TP and the scenery was not very good at all. Had a look at this website http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/maps.html and it became obvious to me that Service 2 had much better resolution maps all over the country (Service 3 only had high res maps for the major cities) I know that this all sounds rather obvious - but it really lies at the heart of TPBarry

[Guest cbuchner1]

Nice side by side tool.There's one called flashearth.com where you can switch service providers, but it's not strictly side by side.

[barryward12345 0]

Trouble is that Flashearth.com only allows you to compare Yahoo with Microsoft VEHere is another website that allows comparisons between Google and MS VE http://www.jonasson.org/maps/My previous posting has the website which allows comparisons between Google and Yahoo http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/maps.htmlIt's a shame we can't get all 3 map providers compared with one another on one page.Regards Barry