2.28.2006

Windows Live interactive map lets you drive down streets

This is a very early preview, but windows live local (virtual earth) is coming out with a feature similar to Amazon A9's street view that lets you simulate driving down city streets. The preview works for Seattle and San Francisco, and one city took 10 million photos alone. Basically you can use your keyboard to drive a car down the street, simulateously viewing what's infront or to either side of you. This is another impressive beginning to the Live Local (Virtual Earth) offering, which has set out to give you a birds eye view of the world. If they can make this a smooth navigation and rotation of angle, it will be killer.