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For those Wintotal users, a new release was issued today to provide "birds eye" maps.

Take a look.

This is not an aerial view but a 3D rotatable view. You can actually see all four sides of the subject if you rotate the view.


Very Nice!!!!!

John, I should have axed you today when I had you on the phone... but I need to go ahead and get Wintotal. Working on some other bidniz relationships, and everyone in our area, except me , used Alamode.

It is a sweet program. Some of the other things I like about it is the straight aerial map, gives an overview of the area around the subject and comparables.

That is a pretty nice photo of the subject (which house is the subject, btw?) Does it have the same resolution as this in every area of the country? How often are the photos updated? are these pretty much the same maps that Google and National Geographic have?

Is this only for Aurora? I use Athena but may be forced to upgrade soon.

The feature is only available in Aurora.

To me, Aurora runs circles around Athena. Smoother, and easier to navigate. Pretty much user friendly.

Very nice, but I can't justify the over priced product and underwhelming service. I'll stick with Clickforms and Google Earth

I like Alamode, and find it reasonable considering what I get with it. I also think a big part of the issue is what software someone starts with. Lets face it. With appraisers, time is definitely money, and a software program that someone has used from day one, with updates, will stick to it.
I tried clickforms. Not a bad program, but, probably because I am so used to alamode, I never felt truly comfortable nor content with it.
Had good support from Alamode.
But it is the software that I learned to appraise on.

Ditto what Ben said.