Windows LIVE Local Maps - Amazing !!!

theMAD2 · 30 May 2006 at 00:12

wow very good! ran outside but couldn't see myself though

Gilly · 30 May 2006 at 00:13

Their coverage of Scotland is pants

Mickey_D · 30 May 2006 at 00:13

Mad old tory said:
how do you get the bird's eye views?

Not all areas have it.....

VeNT · 30 May 2006 at 00:13

CSGAS said:
No ****!

sorry, I've been drinking and its late, should have read "roads"
also the cycle path thing, its about 50% of the cycle paths

RobH · 30 May 2006 at 00:14

Google Earth has newer images of Birmingham and higher resolutions in my opinion, the old Bullring is clearly visible on live where as you can see the construction site (in quite a lot of detail) on google earth. I'd say the images over Birmingham are at least 5 years old. I'd be tempted to say they were as old as 1997, as the Lakeside residence at Aston University was completed in 1997 and by the images it looks as if the building still has scaffholding on it.

Mickey_D · 30 May 2006 at 00:14

noob said:
errm all I can see is road names, etc why can't I see any photos?

In the image in my previous post, see where it says "Aerial"? Click it......

xyphic · 30 May 2006 at 00:15

The birds-eye view is great! Looks about 6 months old given the state of roadworks and changes that have happened recently.

Bigpops · 30 May 2006 at 00:16

This seems to have much more coverage than Google earth. I've looked at a few places where Google earth has almost no detail, and this goes to full detail. The view of my house is around 3 years old. I know because my old Nissn Micra is in the picture, and i only had it for 3 months.

VeNT · 30 May 2006 at 00:17

k, well I've checked, the photos of cornwall are about 6-7 years old now, maybe a bit more.

mad_allan · 30 May 2006 at 00:17

The map of Peterborough is really old too, my house is just a field :eek:

Tommy B · 30 May 2006 at 00:17

I'd estimate that the photos are in the region of 5-8 years old.

It's awesome tho. 8MB downloads so quickly you can do journeys in real time.

bingham67 · 30 May 2006 at 00:18

not good for me either really bad aerial photo and so old about 5 years or so.

Still going by other shots it zoom better on certain areas.

Raymond Lin · 30 May 2006 at 00:18

I think you can practiallly see boobies ! :eek:

theMAD2 · 30 May 2006 at 00:20

http://local.live.com/?v=2&sp=aN.snbj98h1dsxk_Freeport___

That's Freeport in Essex and it's just getting built! It's been up for years now lol! It's like some sort of time machine!!

Gilly · 30 May 2006 at 00:20

Wow, that is pretty good

Gimpymoo · 30 May 2006 at 00:21

Raymond Lin said:
I think you can practiallly see boobies !

ROFLMAO

So that is why it is called a BIRDS EYE view?

Beansprout · 30 May 2006 at 00:22

Tommy B said:
I'd estimate that the photos are in the region of 5-8 years old.

Depends.

Most of the data is Landsat7 which will be quite old because Landsat7 hasn't done a new pass for a while. iirc the last one was in 2000 which is the Geocover dataset, but I don't think they use that.

Other data - the high-res stuff - is sourced from the high-res sat imagery providers and it's their business to have up to date data. For example, my house's photo was taken last year or the year before

Mickey_D - that's because they all use the 1m black and white USGS datasets, and furthermore they pick from their Terraserver USGS database which isn't really up to date with the actual USGS coverage.

All I've seen that Terraserver is missing is the latest high-res US cities, so I doubt the USGS has updated coverage of your area but the info should be somewhere on usgs.gov.

"andy" · 30 May 2006 at 00:25

windows Live Local has determined your location by using your computer's IP address.

holy **** its not far out either :eek:

Gimpymoo · 30 May 2006 at 00:30

I wonder if there are any pictures of North Korea?

Got you now Mr Communist - MWWAAHAHAHAHAHA

Gimpymoo · 30 May 2006 at 00:31

andy8271 said:
windows Live Local has determined your location by using your computer's IP address.

holy **** its not far out either

So the next time the MPAA come knocking on your door.. you know where theyy got your address from