No Live Maps for UK Users? We have the workaround

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Vasudev — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:11:21 GMT

Live Maps is back for UK users. check it.

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Chris — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:03:25 GMT

Given the number of referrals we're getting from google about this issue, clearly this isn't a popular decision by the team. I'm wondering if they had a contractual obligation to do the redirect it as it seems like such a bizarre decision.

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quikboy — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:32:47 GMT

I heard from another commenter on another site that he talked with one of the guys, and the Live Maps team is considering switching it back.

Why they ever tried pulling UK users to Live Maps, I don't know. At least they're fixing it.

@SteveBalmer : Stop spamming!

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Mephiles — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:22:10 GMT

I hate it. Why can't they just move all of the MultiMap features onto Live Search Maps? What's stopping them?

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SteveBallmer — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:21:25 GMT

No big loss!

Everything over there is old and broken down anyhow!

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Vasudev — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:14:51 GMT

Also you will not be redirected to MultiMap, if you use local.live.com or live.maps.com .

Try it .

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BV2312 — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:39:22 GMT

ooops i mean right sorry

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BV2312 — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:37:49 GMT

MSN.co.uk gadget on the left uses MultiMap too but i did notice that they have traffic infomation, question is... when will they integrate that information with Live Maps (Uk)

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LosHavros — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:33:38 GMT

Google Maps, here I come. Why?

- Where's 3D?

- Multimap takes aaaaaaages to load map data, compared to Live Maps

- I don't like the look and feel

- etc etc

Multimap says: "new features put you in the driving seat"

If anything, I feel like I have ceded a measure of control of what I can do to Multimap.

This begs the question, if Microsoft wanted to use Multimap branding, why not just re-brand Live Maps? Microsoft invest heavily into Live Maps, and then do this?!??!

The ONLY plus side, just check London in both Multimap and Live Maps. In multimap, they use data from Collins Bartholomew which is very nice. That's the only complement I can think of.

This has turned into a bit of a rant on my part, but understandably- I'm very annoyed.

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BV2312 — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:23:51 GMT

didn't someone already mention this in a comment? ;)

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Khristopher — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:28:57 GMT

Microsoft just continues to get lamer! Way to go guys. You lost more of your users to Google. LOL.

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Justin Drerup — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:22:08 GMT

I agree with the article - if I wanted Multimap I'd go to their website. I'm a big Microsoft fan however this has just given me a good reason to go straight to Google Maps. Yes I can click on the link with the US market set but it means that I have to scroll to the UK (my region) each time the map loads.

I also have a number of collections saved that I can't get to from the Multimap page. Someone at Microsoft seems to really have thought this one through...

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Jamie — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:49:58 GMT

This is not just Live Maps UK.

Spain, Australia & NZ also redirects

maps.live.com

= www.multimap.com & en-nz, es-es

Other common European or English

French (fr-fr) = Live maps France

English Canada (en-ca) = Live Maps Canada

French Canada (fr-ca) = Live Maps France

Germany (de-de) has an sponsership 'suchenode' but still live map branding (Live Maps Germany)

Italy (it-it) = Live Maps Italy

if anyone else finds 'affected markets these need adding to this list

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reportered — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:27:13 GMT

Thanks for the workaround; I was not pleased to get multimap instead of windows live maps this morning especially as there features are different (no collections) and no integration with windows live id's either - do I really want another sign-on too?

Whats are you doing Microsoft!

I also noticed www.live.com now goes back to the 'personalized' page too - is this a new change as well?

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ScottIsAFool — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:22:48 GMT

I do indeed :) Will change that now :D Brain not with it today...