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Windows Live Local powered by Virtual Earth
http://local.live.com/
However, Windows Live Local has one amazing feature that Google Maps does not.
Windows Live Local offers "Bird's Eye View," which are images licensed from
Pictometry International at a 45-degree angle instead of directly overhead. "To date,
Pictometry information is available for geographic areas accounting for about 25
percent of the U.S. population, including the greater metropolitan areas of
Manhattan, Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Microsoft will continue to work
with Pictometry to shoot more landscapes, with a focus on highly populated areas
and tourist destinations such as Las Vegas, which already shows up in bird's-eye
view."s6 More locations are being added.
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Clicking the rotation arrows (N SEW) in the navigation panel, displays a 360 0
panoramic view that is genuinely breathtaking. If you right-click anywhere on the
map you can add your own pushpins. Live Local also offers a "Scratch Pad" to make
notes about a location. For users who want to learn more about using Bird's Eye
View and Live Local maps in general, there are several blogs devoted to Windows
Live Local that I find far more useful than Microsoft's Live help.
Windows Live SpacesNirtual Earth
http://virtualearth.spaces.live.com/
86 Susan Kuchinskas, "Windows Live Local Offers a New View," InternetNews.com, 8 December
2005, (30 October 2006).
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