Comments on: Live Search Maps Getting Better At Giving Directions

By: JANE ANTHONY

JANE ANTHONY — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:19:08 +0000

PLEAS EMAIL ME WHEN YOU HAVE THE ANSWER TO THIS.

By: doug traylor

doug traylor — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:53:47 +0000

im haveing trouble dragging the map i drag an area it moves then goes back to where it was my hour glass and hand are blinking i t worked a month ago now icant get the areas to move i hope you can help as i use the map quit often for directions and ican follow the roads on the map for refferences thank you

By: NDWings

NDWings — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:14:43 +0000

This looks similar to the cool MapJack.com. And I like MapJack more because of its usability and simplicity compared to Everyscape.

By: Phillip Nakata

Phillip Nakata — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:33:42 +0000

I saw the earlier comment about not being able to embed live maps …. see this clever use of developer’s kit at virtualearth….

http://virtuale...ve.com/blog/cns!2BBC66E99FDCDB98!8240.entry

(embedding any ‘collection’ id within a sizable windows, with the option to have a side list of the collection items)

By: GlobalDR

GlobalDR — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:24:03 +0000

Searching for the Answer…

Searching for the Answer…

By: tim

tim — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:17:23 +0000

Though this was just posted on the Live Search blog, these feature were released a few weeks ago

http://blog.kel...ve-search-maps/

By: Dan Schawbel

Dan Schawbel — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:29:48 +0000

Microsoft is making the right move here. The landscape looks true to real life, so I’m sure it will go over well with everyone.

By: Richard Miller

Richard Miller — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:19:53 +0000

functionality together with great graphic features have always been an important component when it comes to mapping applications. Cool feature!

By: micfo.com

micfo.com — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:54:31 +0000

I like this feature -Live Search Maps will now actually re-route your directions around bad traffic. That seems pretty useful.

By: third

third — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:27:08 +0000

@16

Yep, you got that right. And it looks pretty amazing! I didn’t imagine that MS is brewing Photosynth for this.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:05:22 +0000

I don’t consider “overly detailed driving instructions” to be a bug. It’s true that you probably don’t need instructions on how to get to the highway from your house but what if you’re looking up directions on how to get somewhere from a friend’s house? In that case, since you’re in an unfamiliar neighborhood I would think you would want very detailed instructions. Of course, it’s good to have an option to skip those types of directions but I’m glad they’re their in the first place.

By: Offthegrid

Offthegrid — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:57:01 +0000

Okay, since traffic.com doesn’t provide a black flow indicator for standstill traffic does this mean Live maps is using Inrix data mixed with traffic.com or are they just guessing when traffic is slower than traffic.com’s red flow indicator?

By: Max

Max — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:47:35 +0000

This looks like they just applied Microsoft Photosynth to maps.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:26:10 +0000

Hi, remember me, I’m Microsoft Bob. Now I do maps. Glad you like them. Don’t forget to install a bunch of my microsoft software when you visit my mapping site. (that is if your using windows, ha ha apple and linux weenies).

Keep on Truckin’

Sincerely,
Microsoft Bob!

By: Billy

Billy — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:19:15 +0000

What’s a microsoft? What’s a “live search map”? Can I google it?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:01:41 +0000

It works on Mac if you use FireFox.

By: Axel

Axel — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:43:03 +0000

Only looks “cool” if you’re using one of Steve Ballmer’s approved operating systems, it seems. Oh well.

By: Richard Corsale

Richard Corsale — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:51:02 +0000

functionality is always a nice feature

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:49:16 +0000

This is the best software of this kind by an order of magnitude!
ps: It won’t work on macs or iPhones!

http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com

By: Velioncho

Velioncho — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:44:03 +0000

I am glad somebody other than Mike has covered this topic.
If it were Mike, focal point would have been on one silly thing “Microsoft admittedly copying the edit feature from google maps”. Then again Google copied collection from microrsoft. Story would be on who copied whom? and who is lying rather than on what features are nice for the user.

By: Jamie Thomson

Jamie Thomson — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:16:51 +0000

Personally I think the best feature of this recent release is the ability to build a 3D tour of a collection. Driving directions..yeah…OK. Pretty good. Not THAT good though (IMO).

Now if they could give 3D tours of driving directions (this isn’t yet possible) THAT would be cool.

-Jamie

By: Rajan Tawate

Rajan Tawate — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:07:59 +0000

@1 seems to be a big MSFT fan.

http://www.meetingflex.com

By: Alec

Alec — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:57:28 +0000

I love that mapping technology is improving due to competition. I wish we had the same happening with operating systems.

One thing I haven’t found on any mapping service, and one I’d LOVE, particularly when dealing with busy city streets, is a note on which side of the street the address happens to be when following the map sites directions. Many street address numbers are poorly marked and having to zip my head back and forth to try to identify the right side to look on is slightly dangerous.

By: Parker

Parker — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:49:46 +0000

All I ask is they tell me where I can park!!!

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:29:29 +0000

The only thing Live Maps is still missing is the ability to embed custom maps (ie. collections) into a blog or web page.

I would switch from Google Maps today if I could post my maps somewhere other than the Live site.