Live Search Maps

Are you getting sucked into tracking the Swine Flu news? Are you itching to watch the virus (pandemic?)’s spread at every turn? If so, then check out this new collection on Live Search Maps that highlights the reported cases – both confirmed and unconfirmed – and the routes those folks traveled…

A recent blog post on Chris Pendleton’s site alerted me to a Virtual Earth feature that I wasn’t aware of – a 3D weather setting. According to the post, you can turn on 3D weather by clicking the 3D button on your favorite Virtual Earth website…like Live Search Maps, for example. Once you get down…

No doubt you've heard about the recent earthquakes in China. The Live Search Maps team in China has put together a collection rendering all of the earthquakes in China. In addition to mapping out where the earthquakes occurred, there's a sidebar which provides more information about each spot…

The folks over on LiveSide have announced some coming changes to the popular online mapping service, Live Search Maps. To begin, the two search boxes have been combined into one box and moved over to the left with the links to search Businesses, People, Collections, and Locations below it. The links…

Durante coletiva de imprensa da manhã de hoje, a Microsoft anunciou que os serviços de busca de mapas no Brasil serão atualizados para incluir detalhes de mais de 1.000 cidades do país. Além disso, o Live Search Maps permitirá traçar rotas e ver o trânsito em 170 dessas cidades, graças a uma…

So yesterday Catherine Heller and Chris Pendleton brought you the basics of Live Search Maps. Today is all about the integration.  How does Live Search Maps work with other services in the Live Collection?  All of those unanswered questions that have been keeping you up at night will…

Catherine Heller sits down with Chris Pendleton, he's the virtual earth technical evangelist here at Microsoft who talks about Live Search Maps.  It's an integration of local listings for finding places of business, internet based search.  It's got an integrated 3D browser.  There is…

The Live Search Maps team has expanded the area of aerial and bird's eye imagery in cities across the globe. The detail is great, don't forget to use F-11 to go fullscreen and arrow keys to navigate (unless you have a wired Xbox 360 controller.) The areas with enhanced coverage include: US…

As the Canadian guy on the on10 team I'm excited to have on10 as part of this great expedition happening right here in Canada.  Larry has a great video interview with James Coleridge talking about the upcoming expedition to Mt. Logan and the technology that they will be using.  Larry…