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  • Live Maps Belgium launched…in French and Flemish!

    After Live Search Maps for The Netherlands launched last month , their southern neighbor Belgium is now following with the release of their local Live Maps. And this is a special release at that. As you may know, in Belgium there are two main languages...
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  • Virtual Earth Imagery Release, January 2009

    A really really really HUGE Virtual Earth imagery release this month,  100TB 37TB!  And guess what? Paris, France also got Bird’s eye photos now, yay!

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    Obliques (Bird’s Eye, International)

    France – Paris, Nantes, St Quentin, Pau, Montauban, Lorient, Calais, Dunkerque, St. Nazaire, Quimper, Le Havre, Caen, Beauvais, Angers, Rennes
    Germany – Berlin, Rhur Valley
    Ireland – Dublin
    Italy – Lamezia, Gela, Taranto, Rimini, Reggio di Calabria, Piacenza, Parma, Palermo, Monza, Lecce, Cosenza, Catania, L'Aquila, Bologna, Bari, Salerno
    Netherlands – Purmerend, Amsterdam
    Romania – Bucharest
    Spain – Toledo, Tarragona, Lleida
    Sweden - Malmo & Lund, Uppsala, Stockholm, Linkoping, Goteborg
    United Kingdom – Preston, Portsmouth, Cheltenham & Gloucester, Caerphilly, Bournemouth, Hereford, Brighton & Worthing, Manchester, St. Albans

    High Resolution Orthos (International)

    Great Britain - England, Scotland
    Greece – Thessaloniki
    Japan - Oita, Kagoshima, Shizuoka, Sendai, Shuto
    Norway - Vestfold, Harstad, Mjoseregionen, Tromso
    Portugal – Lisbon
    Spain - Madrid, Santiago, Guipizcoa, Coruna, Tarragona, Sevilla

    Obliques (Bird’s Eye, United States)

    Arizona - Pima County
    California - Ventura County, Yolo County, Orange County, Butte County, Madera County, Tulare County
    Colorado - Adams County
    Delaware – Dover
    Florida - Lake County, Collier County
    Georgia - Bulloch County, Cobb County, Forsyth County
    Idaho - Kootenai County
    Illinois - La Salle County, Kankakee County, Winnebago County, Kendall County, Grundy County, Will County, Chicago, St. Clair County
    Indiana – Anderson, Porter County, Tippecanoe County, Vigo County, Hendricks County, Huntington County, Hamilton County, Huntington County
    Iowa – Rock Island County
    Maryland - Frederick County, Charles County
    Michigan - Livingston County, Allegan County, St. Clair County, Kent County, Eaton County, Bay County, Lenawee County
    Minnesota - Steele County, St. Cloud, Huston County, Winono County, Dakota County, Scott County, Carver County, Hennepin County, Kandiyohi County, Anoka County
    Missouri - Butler County, Franklin County, Andrew County, Pemiscot County, Jasper County, Jefferson County
    New Jersey - Gloucester County
    New York - Genesse County, Jefferson County, St. Lawrence County, Oneida County
    North Carolina - Henderson County, Randolph County, Wayne County, Johnston County, Richmond County, Guidford County, Currituck County
    Ohio - Geauga County
    Pennsylvania - Cumberland County
    South Carolina - Horry County,
    Tennessee - Montgomery County
    Texas - Williamson County, San Jacinto County, Collin County, Grayson County, Midland County, Parker County, Harris County, Wise County, Hays County
    Virginia - Lynchburg County, Russell County, Chesterfield County, Suffolk County, Roanoke City County
    Wisconsin - Rock County, Jefferson County, Winnebago County, Marathon County, Walworth County, Fond du Lac County

    High Resolution Orthos (United States)

    CA - Anaheim, Pasadena, East Los Angeles
    FL - West Palm Beach, Orlando
    CO – Arvada
    MO - St. Louis
    NJ – Trenton
    NV – Henderson
    TX – Mesquite, Garland, Arlington, Plano, Bellaire

    This release also includes the first use of the Digital Globe satellite imagery Microsoft licensed a few months ago. Warning! Huge List!

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  • Live Maps For Finland

    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 Chris Pendleton's .
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  • Live Image Search Adds Virtual Earth

    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 for the Space Needle , you will get a Bird’s Eye image: As you can see on the above image you can also...

  • Virtual Earth, Live Maps update: Lots of new features, new SDKs, more

    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 on your 3D maps collections just went live.  Lots to tell you about, and we’ll be going into more...

  • Live Search adds features as market share shrinks

    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.  While US search share numbers from the three major reporting services (comScore, Neilsen Online, and Hitwise...
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  • Google Maps: We’re not evil, just not very good

    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 , Google says they haven’t done anything to their maps in relation to the conflict currently affecting Georgia...
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  • Google Maps Street View “drive-bys” Microsoft and Live Maps

    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”, as Gizmodo calls it, got a little too close to Building 116, where Live Maps resides: the Google guys...
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  • Don’t like the 20TB of new data in Virtual Earth? Submit your own!

    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 from the Des Moines Register , below)… …and other non-Ultra-cam imagery of lots of areas of France, some...
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  • Live Maps gets a new header and other Live Search news

    Thanks to LiveSide member derviskemal for noticing that the Live Maps header has changed.  Here’s the new look: …and what we were seeing up until a few days ago: Much more in keeping with the overall new look of Live Search.  We wrote earlier...

  • Live Search for Windows Mobile gets update

    Live Search for Windows Mobile has just received an update, bringing out the features announced at CTIA last month . While it provides the standard mapping and local search that we’ve come to expect, it now adds the following: · Map a contact:  ...

  • Changes Afoot For UK Live Maps Users – A Heads Up

    James Senior , a Microsoft UK blogger, has put up on his blog about an impending change to Live Maps in the UK. Don’t worry, we’re not going to see the farce that happened last time! The changes that will be coming are as follows: If you visit the URL...
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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...
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  • Virtual Earth / Live Maps: It's Music Festival Time!

    Looking for a Music Festival to go to this summer? The Virtual Earth Team has created a map that will eventually contain nearly a hundred festivals around the world! Spin's May issue runs down nearly a hundred festivals around the world featuring...
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  • Live Maps part 2: Export Collections to Nav device

    In part one of this little series on new features of Live Maps , Steve Lombardi, a Live Maps program manager, showed us around Live Maps Collections, and MapCruncher. In the second part, we’ll talk about exporting a Live Maps Collection to a file that...
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