My Piece of the Inter(.)net » Google Maps http://mypieceoftheinter.net A place for my geekish ramblings or whatever I find interesting. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:35:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Windows Live Street View? http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/1474 http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/1474#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:01:26 +0000 David McGrath http://mypieceoftheinter.net/archives/1474 Oh, Microsoft.  Implementing a Street View feature for Windows Live Maps, are we?  One of my friends snapped this picture on Elkhorn Ave in Norfolk, Virginia.
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This picture isn’t great, but it shows the evidence.  …For a better view of the area, why not try the Google Street View of the place? :-D

Making fun of Microsoft is always fun, but let’s not forget that Live Maps has some great features like their “Bird’s Eye View” and in-browser (IE or Firefox) 3D rendering (with Xbox 360  controller support, of course).  To be fair, I remember seeing a Live demo for a Street-View-esque navigator a while ago, even before Google Street View went public.  I guess imagery captured by the Live Local vans will be used for a more polished and integrated version of that.  I’m interested to see how it works out.

Edit at 11:31pm:

PaoloM, on the Channel9 forums, referred me to the “Street-View-like” demo that I thought of.  He sent me a link to this blog post, which was created in early 2006.  The preview is currently still available at http://preview.local.live.com/

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