Live Maps Argentina Is Now Live

Chris Pendleton has just blogged that Live Maps for Argentina is now live. From his post:

This site comes with geocoding places and addresses, road maps, satellite imagery and photography and traffic incident and flow information. In terms of content, this is what you get which is a great framework to build on.

imageAlso, 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 actions) menu you can Propiedades (rename your collection and give it a description), Mostrar todo (map all your points), Enviar por email (send the collection link via email), Eliminar (remove pins from the map) or Limpiar (delete your collection).

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So this adds to the Live Maps done for India that we saw last month and shows that Microsoft is really pushing to get out more localised versions of Live Maps.

SL

Comments

  • sebaherrera

    I’m from Argentina and, until now, the most useful maps resource was the software Compumap (www.compumap.com) which has great detail from some provinces.
    I’ve tried Live Maps and was surprised by the precision. For example, I’ve searched for a friend that lives on Rafael Castillo (Buenos Aires), and Live Maps retrieved correctly that Rafael Castillo is on the deparment of La Matanza.
    It’s the highest degree of detail I’ve seen in web services for my country. If Microsoft add directions by car and public transport (and updates accordingly), it would be a killer app.

  • http://widgetslab.com Avatar X

    I hope that this means LiveMaps Mexico is next to come. i will get pissed if that don`t launches soon.. :/

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/CharlyAR/default.aspx CharlyAR

    I’ve been trying for the last week in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and it seems… promising.
    It lack of some features tough (streets intersections for example), and is a little bit out-of-date with some streets and areas.