Live Maps Argentina Is Now Live
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... Also, I should point out, don't miss the right-click menu. Within the right-click menu you can add pushpins to the map which then fires off the whole Collections feature. Those of you who have used Live Search Maps in the US are well versed in how Collections allow you to login with your Windows Live ID and store your points, polylines and polygons in a cloud service we host and are available to you when you return. With Collections you can also create new lists (200 items per collection) with descriptions, URLs and photos. On the collections panel, under the Acciones (or ...

Live Search Maps for Argentina
D' Technology Weblog — ... Also, I should point out, don’t miss the right-click menu. Within the right-click menu you can add pushpins to the map which then fires off the whole Collections feature. Those of you who have used Live Search Maps in the US are well versed in how Collections allow you to login with your Windows Live ID and store your points, polylines and polygons in a cloud service we host and are available to you when you return. With Collections you can also create new lists (200 items per collection) with descriptions, URLs and photos. On the collections panel, under ...

Microsoft Virtual Earth or Google Earth?
Gadgetell — ... Microsoft’s Virtual Earth has partnered with DigitalGlobe to provide searchers with high-resolution mapping images.  Word of this came out only two weeks after DigitalGlobe announced the renewal of its agreement with ...

Virtual Earth Imagery Release – October, 2008
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... Medicine Hat. Saskatchewan: Regina, Saskatoon, Moose Jaw, Swift Current, Yorkton, Estevan, Weyburn United Kingdom: Guildford, Grays Tilbury, Manchester Germany: Ruhrgebeit Region, Koln/Cologne, Bonn, Hamm Austria: Vienna Luxembourg: Luxembourg That’s a lot of new imagery on Live Search maps to look at and explore! Chris Pendleton’s blog post contains some of the newly ...

Photosynth Comes to Live Maps
Screenwerk — ... Microsoft’s Photosynth is a still largely unappreciated thing. I’ve offered it my highest praise (”totally cool”) in the past. And this, from my SEL discussion, when it launched to the public: “Photosynth is one of the most compelling and genuinely unique products to come out of Redmond (other than Surface) in a long time.” Now Microsoft has integrated it into Live Maps (you must have the Photosynth plug-in installed to view the images [PC only]): ...

Photosynth Mashed Up with Windows Live Maps
SolSie.com — ... ) Find a location (e.g., Leaning tower of Pisa ), Click on explore collection ...

Microsoft maps get Photosynth panoramas
Underexposed — ... Microsoft now lets people using its Live Search Maps service get a more immersive view by integrating the company's Photosynth panoramic viewer technology. ...

Microsoft maps get Photosynth panoramas
Webware.com — ... Microsoft now lets people using its Live Search Maps service get a more immersive view by integrating the company's Photosynth panoramic viewer technology. ...

Photosynth now available in Microsoft Live Search Maps
The Seattle Times: Microsoft Pri0 — ... Photosynth, the Microsoft software that arranges photo sets in their real-world, 3-D context and allows people to navigate them smoothly, has been added to the company's Live Search Maps service, as planned. ...

Live Map Integrates Photosynth 3D Tours
dailywireless.org — ... Microsoft now lets people using its Live Search Maps service get a more immersive view by integrating the company’s ...

Virtual Earth Web Service Maps and Pushpins
D' Technology Weblog — ... , but you can add some of the default pushpins you see in Live Search Maps to the static map that is returned to you if you set the Pushpins as a part of the request. In the Imagery Service there are several options you can set, but the Pushpin is not one of them. Pushpins actually reside in the MapUriRequest Class, so you’ll need to set them there. First, you create your Pushpin array, then pass the array into the MapUriRequest. ...

Photosynth Collection Exploration in Live Search Maps
D' Technology Weblog — ... a new way to explore Photosynth’s as a part of Collection Explorer feature on Live Search Maps. In order to find Photosynths in ...

IDV’s Spatial Wiki ‘Geospatial Map Annotations’
D' Technology Weblog — ... is very much like the Collections feature on Live Search Maps in that you can store your collection of points, polygons and lines in a cloud and search on them. While Collections on Live Search Maps play a bigger role in the Microsoft strategy by indexing the results in Live Search, the Spatial Wiki fills a void for some really great, easy to use tools for sharing and duplicating map annotations. Now, a year from now when the wiki is good and full, what do you think IDV is going to do with all this data? That, my friends, is the million dollar question. ...

Accelerators for Windows 7
D' Technology Weblog — ... , are neat little shortcuts a user can use to perform an action based on some selected data, without having to cut and paste it anywhere else. For example, rather than paste an address into Live Maps, you can simply highlight 1 Microsoft Way and access an Accelerator to map out the location immediately. Accelerators for Windows made a quiet debut back in an older Milestone 3 builds of Windows 7 and can be found in ...

The 3D Web in 2008
ReadWriteWeb — ... , letting you explore various ...

Live Maps For Finland
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — Finland now also has Live Maps (Virtual Earth), including 3D and Bird’s Eye images. More details, and a lesson in Finnish, can be found over at Chris Pendleton's. ...

Virtual Earth Imagery: 100TB of January 2009 Update - Live Maps India v2 with API released
D' Technology Weblog — ...  licensed a few months ago. Plus, the long awaited Bird’s Eye photos of Paris, France! Check it on ...

Different Directions: Online mapping services are changing
Webware.com — ... Although Microsoft has struggled to keep up with Google in the search space, I was impressed with Live Search Maps. It might not offer the kind of functionality Google Maps provides, but it's certainly a viable alternative. ...

How to import Google SketchUp Models into Microsoft Virtual Earth?
D' Technology Weblog — ... . From trueSpace you can upload objects directly into a Live Search Maps Collection (and can be imported into a platform application using the ...

Old Habits Die Hard: MapQuest Still #1 Mapping Service
ReadWriteWeb — MapQuest was once the unquestioned leader among online mapping services. And while others like Google Maps or Microsoft's Live Search Maps offer a more modern interface and far more features than MapQuest, the latest data from Hitwise shows that MapQuest still commands almost 40% of the market. Even on the fast-moving Internet, old habits clearly only die very slowly. Sponsor Google Got Close According to Hitwise's Heather Hopkings, Google came very close to catching up with MapQuest in December, but ...

Virtual Earth Imagery Release, March 2009
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... , this month it’s solely Ortho, 21TB’s worth! Not a huge release in terms of terabytes, but huge in terms of square kilometers of the world (63 countries are represented). Lots to discover for you on Live Search Maps! ...

21TB Virtual Earth Imagery Released - Seychelles and other new countries added
D' Technology Weblog — ... Microsoft released a huge addition to the digitization of planet – 21TB - all ortho imagery launched into Microsoft Virtual Earth, powering Live Search Maps and other Live Search properties. Now, this one isn’t huge in terms of terabytes, but is huge in terms of square kilometers of the world. There’re a few new countries on the list – Seychelles, Comoros and more. ...

Windows Live Products Nominated For Webware 100 Awards
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... (Vote!) Internet Explorer 8, faster, easier, safer browsing—and have you tried the new Accelerators that provide instant driving directions, translations, and more? Location-based Services (Vote!) Live Search 411, a free directory assistance number (1-800-CALL-411) that can also send maps, movie listings and more right to your phone. Live Search Maps, if you haven’t tried their bird’s eye view yet, prepare to be wowed. ...

Virtual Earth AJAX control updates; New Virtual Earth 3D map control released
D' Technology Weblog — ... Earth AJAX control and a new version of the Virtual Earth 3D map control. Comes added a couple new methods for adding and removing pins (and DIVs) in the AJAX control; added performance improvements for AJAX and 3D; enhanced geocoding and parsing across the board (AJAX and Virtual Earth Web Service) and fixed a few bugs in the AJAX and 3D controls. The Virtual Earth 3D control will require an update! Download the latest from your favorite Virtual Earth-powered web site (such as Live Search Maps) and click 3D and you will be prompted to install the latest ...

Virtual Earth API, 3D updates
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... Microsoft, so I will spare you the details of those. Now, that being said, for the AJAX map control we just upgraded Version 6.2, so you already have access to the new features and can start using them today without changing your link to Virtual Earth. Everyone is on 6.2 because we’ve either auto-upgraded you or you made the switch yourself. The Virtual Earth 3D control will require an update! Download the latest bits by going to your favorite Virtual Earth-powered web site (such as Live Search Maps) and click 3D and you will be prompted to install the latest bits. ...

Global Live Search Local Listings Coming Soon
Search Engine Roundtable — Live Search Maps is still gaining ground and currently, the only businesses that can verify their listings are those in the US. For US businesses, you can go to ...

Microsoft Photosynth Goes to Work: Integrates With Virtual Earth
ReadWriteWeb — ... the last few weeks. You can now, for example, highlight key images in your synths, and Microsoft also finally introduced privacy controls, so that your synth are not always available to the public by default. Synths on a Map While regular end-users won't get the same benefits as Microsoft's commerical partners, Microsoft already allowed users to browse geotagged synths directly on a Virtual Earth map and Microsoft already highlights some synths in its Live Maps application. Discuss ...

Webware 100 Awards 2009 – And The Winners Are…
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... - Live Search Maps is Microsoft's online mapping service. Users can look up a location by address and get directions, complete with recent traffic reports that can change its estimation of how long it will take. It also uses a technology called ClearFlow that anticipates traffic based on past history of backups at specific times and dates - Site: Maps.live.com ...

Track traffic while on the go for Memorial Day
Webware.com — ... Live Maps Microsoft's Live Maps features outstanding traffic data. Similar to Google Maps, Live Maps displays traffic in streets in most areas across the U.S. You can even ...

The Cat Is Out Of The Bag, It’s…Bing!
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... Microsoft designed Bing as a “Decision Engine” to provide customers with intelligent search tools to help them simplify tasks and make more informed decisions, from simple decisions like choosing the fastest route to get home to more complex ones like researching a product purchase or planning a trip (Maps, ...