Microsoft Launches New Live Search Maps India & New Virtual Earth Imagery
Microsoft has announced they released a new Live Search Maps India plus new imagery to Virtual Earth. Live Search Maps India now has street maps for 9 important Indian cities including: Delhi Mumbai Chennai Kolkata Bengaluru Hyderabad Pune Ahmedabad Jaipur Plus they added a “Location Search” feature, Business Listing (Yellow Pages) Search, Routing/Driving Directions, share/print […]
Barry Schwartz on September 18, 2008 at 9:07 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Microsoft has announced they released a new Live Search Maps India plus new imagery to Virtual Earth.
Live Search Maps India now has street maps for 9 important Indian cities including:
- Delhi
- Mumbai
- Chennai
- Kolkata
- Bengaluru
- Hyderabad
- Pune
- Ahmedabad
- Jaipur
Plus they added a “Location Search” feature, Business Listing (Yellow Pages) Search, Routing/Driving Directions, share/print features and the “collections” feature.
The new Virtual Earth September 2008 imagery update includes Orthos, Vector and 3D updates.
The orthos are updated at:
- Yakima, WA
- Springfield, MO
- Spokane, WA
- Portland, ME
- Grand Rapids, MI
- Billings, MT
- Minneapolis, MN (UltraCam Refresh)
- Seattle, WA (UltraCam Refresh)
- Las Vegas, NV (UltraCam Refresh)
- Phoenix, AZ (UltraCam Refresh)
- Tampa, Fl (UltraCam Refresh)
The vector updates can be found via:
- Vector overlays for Navteq and MDS data sources for orthos and Bird’s Eye
- All mobile tiles
- New British Isles Map style
The 3D update can be found in Tampa, Florida.
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