Tag Archives: Live Maps
Live Maps Belgium launched…in French and Flemish!
Feb 5, 2009 by Sunshine
After Live Search Maps for The Netherlands launched last month, their southern neighbor Belgium is now following with the release of their local… Read more
Virtual Earth Imagery Release, January 2009
Feb 4, 2009 by Sunshine
A really really really HUGE Virtual Earth imagery release this month, 100TB 37TB! And guess what? Paris, France also got Bird’s… Read more
Live Maps For Finland
Jan 11, 2009 by Sunshine
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… Read more
Live Image Search Adds Virtual Earth
Oct 27, 2008 by Sunshine
If you search Images for major cities or landmarks on Live Search, you will now be able to see the results on a Virtual Earth Map. If available, like… Read more
Virtual Earth, Live Maps update: Lots of new features, new SDKs, more
Sep 24, 2008 by Kip Kniskern
Virtual Earth 6.2, a big new update to Live Maps, and new access to a 3DVia content library where you can download, mash-up, and include 3D content… Read more
Live Search adds features as market share shrinks
Sep 19, 2008 by Kip Kniskern
More of the same from comScore this week, as the latest numbers show that in the US, Live Search and Yahoo! continue to lose share to Google. … Read more
Google Maps: We’re not evil, just not very good
Aug 13, 2008 by Kip Kniskern
Apparently there’s been a bit of a stir around what Google Maps did/didn’t do to their maps of the country of Georgia. In a blog post today,… Read more
Google Maps Street View “drive-bys” Microsoft and Live Maps
Jun 28, 2008 by Kip Kniskern
A Google Maps Street View car was spotted on the Microsoft campus the other day, according to a post over on Gizmodo. Apparently the “GooCar”,… Read more
Don’t like the 20TB of new data in Virtual Earth? Submit your own!
Jun 25, 2008 by Kip Kniskern
Another big data update over at Virtual Earth, over 20 TB, including Microsoft UltraCam images of Iowa City in drier times:
(a more recent picture… Read more
Live Maps gets a new header and other Live Search news
Jun 19, 2008 by Kip Kniskern
Thanks to LiveSide member derviskemal for noticing that the Live Maps header has changed. Here’s the new look:
…and what we were seeing… Read more
