Mapping: Google Maps, Google Earth, Windows Live Local, Flash Earth, etc. | Thread profile

http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=3285248...76&z=11&l=0& m=a http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=3279037...20&z=14&l=0& m=a

Quote: Originally Posted by CTroyMathis http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=3285248...76&z=11&l=0& m=a http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=3279037...20&z=14&l=0& m=a Very cool, but isn't their policy a bit restrictive? How to use Just move the map to find interesting places, click on rectangles. To add an interesting place or object use Add New link. Note: Please only add places interesting to everyone. So ...

Google Maps finally added scrollable zooming (mouse wheel). I like that the Wikimap is almost full screen, too bad is doesn't have the scroll zoom.

I'm seeing physical ads (around the area, not just online) for Windows Live Local almost as often as the common iPod ads now. (iPod still wins because my Red Line train is dressed in it.) Big time promotion campaign it appears.

Google Maps has finally implemented the last missing feature: multiple stop trips. Here's a scenic tour of the Metroplex: from:dallas, tx to:midlothian, tx to:fort worth, tx to:denton, tx to:dallas, tx . Or, you can just drive around town . The interactive waypoint addition is pretty nice. Start with a query in the form "(point a) to (point b)", and you can use a link at the ...

Quote: Originally Posted by DalLove444 I still want to see Windows Live Local offer the "Bird's Eye Views" of downtown Dallas! Im still waiting. Some examples of Birds Eye Views: 1. Philadelphia 2. Minneapolis 3. Seattle 4. Fort Worth

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Google has added building outlines to its maps. Example: Main & Akard . Skyscrapers get some shadowing, but even small buildings are included. They even show the buildings in Old City Park! But this feature only extends to the areas near downtown -- Cedars to the south, Uptown to the north, and east as far as Deep Ellum and Baylor. I don't know how this compares to the competition, ...

Looks like they are just displaying the top view of the 3D buildings they have modelled for Google Earth. Must have been easy enough for them to do, so why not? I would expect Microsoft to soon do the same with Windows Live Local.

Speaking of Google Earth, this is a pretty neat feature: http://www.panoramio.com/ (2gigs of free photo storage with which you can locate the photos via Google Earth). I guess this makes our Community Walk Photo Map obsolete.