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Looks good

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 1:33 am
by s.dot
windows live beta

http://local.live.com/

the imagery is awesome, much better than google maps (provided they can get it working as smooth as google maps), but it seems to overload their servers.

I just now found this, it's probably been out a while :lol:

But you can zoom in really close.

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 2:50 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
Yeah, I've also been trying Windows Live Mail recently - I found it slow and bulky, also I couldn't copy text from emails for some reason - had to use Edit->Copy for the first time in...ages. I think these Live services have a lot of work to go before they start replacing Google's versions...

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 3:00 am
by alvinphp
Being true to the Microsoft way they copied Google maps quite well. The ariel and roadmaps is about the same as google, however I did find the birds eye view of where I live pretty impressive though. And I had no problems with it working.

Yahoo also has something similar, but it would crash a lot on me.

[edit] Played with it a little more and it definitely not as complete as Google Earth.[/edit]

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 4:24 am
by Grim...
The new Yahoo! mail is awesome.

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 7:23 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
...and it works on Firefox ;). Yes, it's a lot better then Win Live at the moment. I switched over to the beta a while back and it works like a charm.

Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 9:19 am
by imstupid
you guys might like this site, although it can eat up free/work time pretty quickly:

http://www.birdseyetourist.com/