Live Local (Virtual Earth) Adds Easier Birds Eye View & Distance Drawing Tool
Gary Price spotted a Windows Live Local Blog update announcing new features added to Windows Live Local (aka Virtual Earth). There are two main features: (1) You can navigate the maps in birds eye view, as you would in street or trips view. You simply can drag the map, zoom, using the same inset map […]
Barry Schwartz on December 14, 2006 at 8:19 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Gary Price spotted a Windows Live Local Blog update announcing new features added to Windows Live Local (aka Virtual Earth). There are two main features:
(1) You can navigate the maps in birds eye view, as you would in street or trips view. You simply can drag the map, zoom, using the same inset map construct as the other views.
(2) You can draw a line from point A to point B on the map and the map will tell you the distance of that line.
FYI, Measure Regions With Google Planimeter at Google Blogoscoped covers a third party tool that allows you to measure the size of areas in Google Maps.
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.