We were all simply amazed at the birds eye view portion of Virtual Earth (I’ve not been a fan of the implementation since day one). That said, it has grown on me so I’ve learned to deal with the grid navigation. Well tonight Microsoft announced that they have replaced the old birds eye navigation with one that makes a ton more sense.
I mentioned a couple days ago that the Birds Eye navigation control was being replaced soon, and today marks the day. Makes me want to sing the witch is dead song from Wizard of Oz. No more thumbnail grid - You can now navigate in Birds Eye using the new inset map similar to Streets and Trips. You can also drag to the end of a birds eye scene and VE will try to bring in the next scene based on where you are dragging.
Hallelujah!
Another new features is the ability to measure distance as you use the drawing tools. GIS professionals will appreciate that feature. I now see that I am only 200 yards from the front gate to Sun Devil Stadium (now that we have a real football coach again).
7 responses so far ↓
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anon
// Dec 12, 2006 at 8:50 pm
Still dealing with those B&W images in Virtual Earth huh James?
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Allan Doyle
// Dec 13, 2006 at 6:07 am
This looks pretty good. I’ve been rediscovering the MS maps/imagery again lately and it actually seems to work in Safari on a Mac these days. I’ll have to check out the new Bird’s Eye interface.
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Iris
// Jun 19, 2007 at 5:19 am
hi, can you help me?
I have a blogspot.com blog and want to post in it a MS bird’s eye view map.
How can I do that?
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Theo NL
// Aug 31, 2007 at 2:51 pm
go to the bird’s eye view in MS maps and tune to your needs (area, direction E-W,N-S).
Then click from the menu Share>view permalink and select the shown link.
Copy and paste it on your blog.
This gives you a link to the bird’s eye view, not the picture if you want that you’l have to use capture software to copy it to your harddisk and then upload it in your blog.
Hope this helps
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bob dunford
// Sep 19, 2007 at 8:36 am
windows virtual earth is not as good as google earth.living in spain tried virtual earh to find crevillente costa blanca spain .could not find it now crevillente is quite a large town with its own railway station which it could not find either.could not find my address in crevillente,but google could .although none of google maps are up to date.their must be away to update the system.its a great idea.to find your home shops .near by.streets in the town and 3d scope teriffic.please get it right.
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bob dunford
// Sep 19, 2007 at 8:37 am
i would like you to let me know when you have a better system for windows earth.
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sam
// Feb 16, 2008 at 2:57 pm
here is a new London based website running on VE’s bird’s eye views: http://www.london-executive.com/propertybird what does the group think?
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