Fun with Live Maps
Posted by Brad Wardell on January 7, 2007 at 10:30 pm · There are 6 comments
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- Posted by no-sweat on January 8th, 2007 at 12:13 am
Never knew they even had a maps thing on live. Gunna try that out now.
- Posted by shrike on January 8th, 2007 at 1:01 am
Terrorists! (that’s all I’m saying)
- Posted by accesser on January 8th, 2007 at 1:05 am
So cool :drool: if you are lucky enough to live where its properly covered
- Posted by david on January 8th, 2007 at 6:44 am
But still it is just a copy of Google Earth.
- Posted by Jug on January 8th, 2007 at 10:20 am
Please MS, give it more international coverage!
It’s in a really, really, poor state there compared to Google Earth.
- Posted by Dane on January 8th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Is it just me or does that not do anything Firefox, it gives listing, but nothing else like the picture shows.
Microsoft showed us where things have progress with Maps.Live.Com. One of the things that’s been really interesting with it is how they’ve extended it to allow more 3D close-ups of maps.
In their demo, they put Las Vegas into 3D where the buildings looked real. Google Maps has a feature that lets buildings be shown as 3D models but not nearly at this level. It’s like a video game almost. Extremely impressive.
What I found interesting is that Microsoft is going to open it up to the community to provide 3D models for buildings and such. The results so far have been spectacular.
Microsoft also stated that their goal is to make sure that all air-coverage will be no older than 2 years. They indicated that they’re really trying to make sure that the photo coverage of maps is much more recent than it has been thus far.
Try it yourself.