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• Live Search Maps with Steve Lombardi

  In this installment of our discussion with Steve Lombardi from Live Search Maps, Steve talks a little about street labels in Bird’s Eye Imagery, and shows us around Tours in 3D, how to add them to your collections, and how to create a movie from... Posted Apr 30 2008, 08:06 PM by Kip Kniskern with | with no comments Filed under: Live Maps, Live Maps 3D

• Live Maps with Steve Lombardi: Part 1 – Explore Collections and Mapcruncher

  The newest release of Live Maps last week introduced some pretty cool new features, and we thought it would be fun to have Steve Lombardi, a Program Manager for Live Maps, take us on a little tour.  In this first part, Steve explains two new additions... Posted Apr 16 2008, 09:41 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Collections, Live Maps, Live Maps 3D, Windows Live Movie Maker, MapCruncher

• New Live Search Maps is Live

  Just checked on maps.live.com and noticed a bunch of new features, and checked with the Virtual Earth / Live Maps blog and sure enough the new release is now live. Denver in 3D (you really have to try it out, much improved!) Man there's a lot of stuff... Posted Apr 11 2008, 06:47 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Live Maps, Live Maps 3D

• Microsoft buys Caligari for Virtual Earth 3D expansion

  Microsoft continues to invest in Virtual Earth, especially in the area of 3D, announcing yesterday it has acquired Caligari, makers of trueSpace, a 3D modeling program.  Last December, Microsoft also acquired MultiMap , a London based mapping service... Posted Feb 07 2008, 06:27 PM by Kip Kniskern with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Corporate Strategy, Virtual Earth, Live Maps 3D

• "10 Reasons to Love the New Live Search Maps" says Steve

  Live Search Maps Program Manager Steve Lombardi posted yesterday on 10 cool new features of the new "Gemini" release - we've covered some of them here at LiveSide in varying degrees, but there are at least a couple of new ones worth noting... Posted Oct 27 2007, 08:37 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Live Maps, Live Maps 3D

• Virtual Earth 3D Tours: starting to get the hang of it

  We got our first glimpse of Virtual Earth 3D Tours at Searchification, but it wasn't much more that a glimpse, and when it went public we were scrambling a bit to get it figured out and get a post up all at the same time. Well since then we've... Posted Oct 23 2007, 09:06 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live SkyDrive, Live Maps 3D, 3DVia

• Microsoft and Dassault Systemes announce 3DVia - again

  In a press release dated October 18, Microsoft and Dassault Systemes formally announced the launch of 3DVia : REDMOND, Wash., and PARIS — Oct. 18, 2007 — Dassault Systèmes (DS), a world leader in 3-D and product life-cycle management (PLM) solutions,... Posted Oct 19 2007, 08:09 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Live Maps, EMEA, Live Maps 3D, 3DVia

• Live Maps with Virtual Earth 3D - what fun!

  Lots of goodness with the new 3D features of Live Maps - one thing to see it on a big screen at Searchification but a whole 'nother world to be able to play with it in real time. Unlike some of the "rollouts" we've seen from Windows... Posted Oct 16 2007, 07:26 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Live Maps, Live Maps 3D

• Microsoft announces Live Call 411, Live Maps 3D improvements, more

  In a press release issued today , Microsoft announced the "final updates to the fall release of its Live Search service" (most of which was at least mentioned at Searchification). The new stuff, condensed from the press release: Maps and directions... Posted Oct 16 2007, 03:20 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: Mobile, Live Search, Live Maps, Live Maps 3D

• Live Maps to incorporate Birds Eye view into 3D maps

  We've mentioned the incorporation of Birds Eye view into Live Maps 3D before , but it's a little hard to describe without actually seeing it. Looks live someone posted a video to YouTube though, that shows off the new technology. Funny that YouTube... Posted Oct 16 2007, 01:08 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Virtual Earth, Live Maps, Live Maps 3D