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New version of TinyTwitter
Geek In Disguise — ... Geolocation: if you have a GPS you can tell everyone where you are. It takes the boring latitude and longitude numbers your GPS returns and can do a reverse address lookup to tell you where you are near – plus it posts it to your timeline along with a Live Maps link so people can see where you are on a map as well. ...

New version of TinyTwitter
Mobility Site — ... Geolocation: if you have a GPS you can tell everyone where you are. It takes the boring latitude and longitude numbers your GPS returns (built in or bluetooth connected) and can do a reverse address lookup to tell you where you are near (not close enough for stalkers to find you!) and posts it to your timeline along with a Live Maps link so people can see where you are on a map as well. ...

Microsoft trumps Google on Georgia maps
Web User | News — ... includes political and historical information on Georgia as well as some basic maps. Check out issue 194 of Web User , available in shops now, where we put 11 of Microsoft and Google's best applications, including their mapping services, through a head-to-head test. http://maps.live.com ...

Live Search Maps/Virtual Earth Advertising “Highlighted Listings, Sponsored Listings and Brand Finder”
D' Technology Weblog — ...  about the 3 types of advisement abailable for you on the Live Search Maps site named as “Highlighted Listings, Sponsored Listings and Brand Finder.” Among 3, the first one is available for orders via the ...

New Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D and 3DVia
D' Technology Weblog — ... the release of a new version of Virtual Earth 3D and 3DVia. When you get to Live Search Maps and click 3D you’ll be prompted to update your 3D control. As a part of this, you can also download the latest and greatest bits of 3DVia from ...

Live Search Maps! Updates: Gets Communites, Local search and more features
D' Technology Weblog — ... Chris Pendleton announced lots of new features in Live Search Maps, which are tied back to some of the updates in the ...

Live Search Maps for Argentina
D' Technology Weblog — ... Also, I should point out, don’t miss the right-click menu. Within the right-click menu you can add pushpins to the map which then fires off the whole Collections feature. Those of you who have used Live Search Maps in the US are well versed in how Collections allow you to login with your Windows Live ID and store your points, polylines and polygons in a cloud service we host and are available to you when you return. With Collections you can also create new lists (200 items per collection) with descriptions, URLs and photos. On the collections panel, under ...

Microsoft Virtual Earth or Google Earth?
Gadgetell — ... Microsoft’s Virtual Earth has partnered with DigitalGlobe to provide searchers with high-resolution mapping images.  Word of this came out only two weeks after DigitalGlobe announced the renewal of its agreement with ...

Photosynth Mashed Up with Windows Live Maps
SolSie.com — ... ) Find a location (e.g., Leaning tower of Pisa ), Click on explore collection ...

Virtual Earth Web Service Maps and Pushpins
D' Technology Weblog — ... , but you can add some of the default pushpins you see in Live Search Maps to the static map that is returned to you if you set the Pushpins as a part of the request. In the Imagery Service there are several options you can set, but the Pushpin is not one of them. Pushpins actually reside in the MapUriRequest Class, so you’ll need to set them there. First, you create your Pushpin array, then pass the array into the MapUriRequest. ...

Photosynth Collection Exploration in Live Search Maps
D' Technology Weblog — ... a new way to explore Photosynth’s as a part of Collection Explorer feature on Live Search Maps. In order to find Photosynths in ...

IDV’s Spatial Wiki ‘Geospatial Map Annotations’
D' Technology Weblog — ... is very much like the Collections feature on Live Search Maps in that you can store your collection of points, polygons and lines in a cloud and search on them. While Collections on Live Search Maps play a bigger role in the Microsoft strategy by indexing the results in Live Search, the Spatial Wiki fills a void for some really great, easy to use tools for sharing and duplicating map annotations. Now, a year from now when the wiki is good and full, what do you think IDV is going to do with all this data? That, my friends, is the million dollar question. ...

Accelerators for Windows 7
D' Technology Weblog — ... , are neat little shortcuts a user can use to perform an action based on some selected data, without having to cut and paste it anywhere else. For example, rather than paste an address into Live Maps, you can simply highlight 1 Microsoft Way and access an Accelerator to map out the location immediately. Accelerators for Windows made a quiet debut back in an older Milestone 3 builds of Windows 7 and can be found in ...

Virtual Earth Imagery: 100TB of January 2009 Update - Live Maps India v2 with API released
D' Technology Weblog — ...  licensed a few months ago. Plus, the long awaited Bird’s Eye photos of Paris, France! Check it on ...

How to import Google SketchUp Models into Microsoft Virtual Earth?
D' Technology Weblog — ... . From trueSpace you can upload objects directly into a Live Search Maps Collection (and can be imported into a platform application using the ...

Alpine PND-K3msn now shipping
NaviGadget — Alpine PND-K3msn we mentioned couple of weeks ago has started shipping and the price is announced to be $300. When you purchase you’ll get 3 months of free subscription to the MSN Direct service which provides traffic information, weather reports, gas prices, movie times, news and alerts, local event information and stock prices at 134 metropolitan areas in U.S. and Canada. You also get the ’send-to-gps’ features which is probably the most useful feature of MSN Direct. You can find addresses, businesses, etc at Live Search Maps and send it directly to your ...

21TB Virtual Earth Imagery Released - Seychelles and other new countries added
D' Technology Weblog — ... Microsoft released a huge addition to the digitization of planet – 21TB - all ortho imagery launched into Microsoft Virtual Earth, powering Live Search Maps and other Live Search properties. Now, this one isn’t huge in terms of terabytes, but is huge in terms of square kilometers of the world. There’re a few new countries on the list – Seychelles, Comoros and more. ...

Virtual Earth AJAX control updates; New Virtual Earth 3D map control released
D' Technology Weblog — ... Earth AJAX control and a new version of the Virtual Earth 3D map control. Comes added a couple new methods for adding and removing pins (and DIVs) in the AJAX control; added performance improvements for AJAX and 3D; enhanced geocoding and parsing across the board (AJAX and Virtual Earth Web Service) and fixed a few bugs in the AJAX and 3D controls. The Virtual Earth 3D control will require an update! Download the latest from your favorite Virtual Earth-powered web site (such as Live Search Maps) and click 3D and you will be prompted to install the latest ...