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Microsoft throws itself hard into the local maps game today with their WLL site-- pretty similar to maps.google.com, but with a great "Birds Eye View" layer-- close-up pictures taken from either a helicopter or a very good satellite. The map is kind of cludgey to use-- the controls are overly complex, and the drag map function doesn't seem to work that great. Still, you can't beat these closeups-- check out the detail in the shot above, of the NY Botanical Garden in the Bronx. And after the jump, shots of Coney Island, The Unisphere in Queens, and Washington Square Park (you can even see tiny little drug dealers!) Can you spot any other fun locations on the map? Put the permalinks in the comments!
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In typical Microsoft fashion, they appear to be using proprietary technologies that aren't compatible with non-IE browsers. Screw 'em. Google Maps works fine for me. Aerial photographs might be good for sightseeing, but it's worthless for helping to find locations unless you're Inspector Gadget with his helicopter hat.
Does anyone else find a problem with the location of the East Village?
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=40.730768~-73.975264&style=h&lvl=14&scene=1474781
brightliner, it works fine on firefox.
WTC Site
Pier 17
Union Square
Guggenheim
Empire State Building
HUGE!!!
Finally got it to work, but it took trying four separate browsers before it did (including MSIE 5.2 for Mac). Firefox 1.5 for Mac didn't work. Only Camino worked.
>>Does anyone else find a problem with the location >>of the East Village?
>>http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=40.730768~-73.975264&style=h&lvl=14&scene=1474781
>>Posted by: IBM | December 8, 2005 02:26 PM
absolutely! and the northern placement of "lower east side"... clearly non-locals. i call on gothamist to get ahold of the proper folks at micro(tiny)soft(flaccid) and help them out with their neighborhood designations. as if we haven't had enough wholesale group-steal of the 'hood already, now microsoft decides the EV is by kmart. nice.