is bhuvan better than and have high resolution satellite maps and extra tools compared to google earth?? Many knows ISRO launched bhuvan more than a year back though i was knowing about it for a long time i never gave it a try, recently i read an article in times of india saying that google earth might have a tough competition with bhuvan this made me try our desi service and to write about it in my blog.
first of all i am happy that ISRO has at least tried and came up with something like this, in many websites and forums i heard reviews that bhuvan has 20 times higher zooming level than google earth and frequency of updation of maps are much faster that is 1 year compared to google earth which is four years, below are the sample images of same location from google earth and bhuvan
first of all i am happy that ISRO has at least tried and came up with something like this, in many websites and forums i heard reviews that bhuvan has 20 times higher zooming level than google earth and frequency of updation of maps are much faster that is 1 year compared to google earth which is four years, below are the sample images of same location from google earth and bhuvan
Now after the first use itself i sensed that Bhuvan is no where near to google earth and Bhuvan has long way to catch google earth in the race below are few reasons why bhuvan still looses big time for google earth these are just my observation and personal opinion:
1. Bhuvan is incompatible with few browsers and works best in IE where as google earth works on all the known browsers
2. Bhuvan claims the resolution upto 10 meters compared to google earth which is 200mts but when compared google earth images looks far more better than Bhuvan
3. Finding, Searching and navigating to a certain place on Bhuvan is very difficult task it requires you to enter co-ordinates where as Google maps has excellent search feature it can even recognize smallest neighborhood in the city and navigation is a piece of cake.
4. Google earth has hell lot of features and have excellent listings of business and landmarks such as Hotels, Malls, Restaurants, etc where as Bhuvan is not targeted for Commercial purpose but give other details such as geographies, soil, water table and other environmental related information.
5. User experience on bhuvan is damn pathetic it is very very slow it takes a lot of time to show the desired location where as google earth / maps are like swift the user selected location opens in matter of seconds compared to bhuvan which takes several minutes.
And yes Google earth is based on the technology which has been since almost a decade where as Bhuvan is just less than 2 years old and have a long way to catch up and fine tune its technology, but presently there is no threat to google earth and it is the best Mapping application out there
1. Bhuvan is incompatible with few browsers and works best in IE where as google earth works on all the known browsers
2. Bhuvan claims the resolution upto 10 meters compared to google earth which is 200mts but when compared google earth images looks far more better than Bhuvan
3. Finding, Searching and navigating to a certain place on Bhuvan is very difficult task it requires you to enter co-ordinates where as Google maps has excellent search feature it can even recognize smallest neighborhood in the city and navigation is a piece of cake.
4. Google earth has hell lot of features and have excellent listings of business and landmarks such as Hotels, Malls, Restaurants, etc where as Bhuvan is not targeted for Commercial purpose but give other details such as geographies, soil, water table and other environmental related information.
5. User experience on bhuvan is damn pathetic it is very very slow it takes a lot of time to show the desired location where as google earth / maps are like swift the user selected location opens in matter of seconds compared to bhuvan which takes several minutes.
And yes Google earth is based on the technology which has been since almost a decade where as Bhuvan is just less than 2 years old and have a long way to catch up and fine tune its technology, but presently there is no threat to google earth and it is the best Mapping application out there
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