Shepparton and Mooroopna – and other Australian cities/towns that have new imagery on Live Maps

Shepparton CBD (western end) Mooroopna shopping centre New imagery was added to Live Maps the other day so now you can view Shepparton and Mooroopna in the updated ortho view. Click either of the above maps to be taken to Live Maps so you can do some exploring. Other towns in Australia that now enjoy [...]

Show me the way to Amarillo

Remember the days when an atlas was compulsory on the school book list? Then we had homework that consisted mainly finding capital cities, rivers and mountains. We traced maps out of our atlas and coloured them in (tracing paper was another tool we required in those times). Now that we have web resources such as [...]

See the world on Live Maps

Over a cuppa the other day the webDotWizards at Rushworth Community House were running through all the computer jobs that were pending: backing up more photos onto Windows Live Skydrive (to make use of the free 5000 megabytes of online storage) taking some more shots to create panoramic photos in Live Photo Gallery and upload [...]

Live Maps update

Courtesy of LiveSide: Just checked on maps.live.com and noticed a bunch of new features, and checked with the Virtual Earth / Live Maps blog and sure enough the new release is now live. Denver in 3D (you really have to try it out, much improved!) Man there’s a lot of stuff here.  Just taking the [...]

Talking about New Birds Eye and 3D cities in Virtual Earth. Portugal, Italy, and Austria get big updates.

There’s a big list of updated cities that have new imagery (see below) so this is the easiest way to pass on the latest Live Maps/Virtual Earth news .  Quote New Birds Eye and 3D cities in Virtual Earth. Portugal, Italy, and Austria get big updates. The latest monthly update of maps is complete. Highlights [...]

Searching the GeoWeb – exploring collections in Live Maps

One of the new features in the latest update to Live Maps is being able to locate items of interest (e.g., landmarks, buildings, famous sights) by exploring Live Map collections and other collections on the ‘Net (e.g., KML collections). All these collections – contributed by you and me – make up the GeoWeb and Live [...]

Talking about You want MORE, BETTER, NEWER imagery?

 A long list of locations which have improved imagery (follow the link below to the original post on the Virtual Earth developer blog). webDotWiz hasn’t had time to investigate as yet and will post some screenshots of what he finds when there’s more time. Quote Virtual Earth, a developer blog : You want MORE, BETTER, [...]

More new imagery on Live Maps/Virtual Earth

Another 11 terabytes of new imagery iss being added to Live Maps, as of May 23. You can browse through the complete list of countries and cities on the Virtual Earth Developer Blog but here is a selection: Hi-res: Toronto Canada, Queens NY, Saint Paul/Minneapolis MN, Cardiff, Briston, Swindon Hi-res ortho of a number of [...]

Virtual Earth for developers

Well, actually don’t dismiss this post if you’re not a professional programmer and web developer because there are a number of ways you can easily get into seeing how the Virtual Earth mapping system works with a little bit of Javascript code and use it on your own web site. For example, it didn’t take [...]

More new imagery on Live Maps

Live Maps (maps.live.com) was updated the other day with more new imagery. From the Live Maps/Virtual Earth team space: New 3D: Canada: Calgary. U.S.A.: Redmond, Buffalo, Beaverton, Portland. UK: Swindon and Brighton. Aerial and bird’s eye coverage: Italy, 73 new cities France: Bordeaux, Montpellier, Toulouse, Cannes, Nice, Monte Carlo Canada: Toronto, Quebec City Mexico: Puerto Vallarta U.S.: [...]