{"id":1549,"date":"2009-06-13T07:05:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T07:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/13\/windows-live-local-van-in-downtown-washington-dc\/"},"modified":"2009-06-13T07:05:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T07:05:04","slug":"windows-live-local-van-in-downtown-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/13\/windows-live-local-van-in-downtown-washington-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Live Local Van in Downtown Washington D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the The <a href=\"http:\/\/facet-tech.com\/\">Facet Technology<\/a> Mobile 360 Van (Windows Live Local Van\/SUV) which was being used by Microsoft for it&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Street-Side Technology Preview<\/span><\/span> for it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/local.live.com\/\">Windows Live Local Beta<\/a> back in 2006 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/15\/windows-live-local-beta-van-spotted-in-billings-montana-us\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/27\/facet-mobile360-van-used-for-windows-live-local-beta\/\">here<\/a>) is still on the road, this time in Downtown Washington D.C. in the United States. Looks like this is a new Van\/SUV make, look at the new encasing on the roof?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you see this curious looking SUV around downtown D.C. today, don&#8217;t expect a news crew to pile out of it.<\/p>\n<p>I asked the driver of this vehicle what, exactly, his ride does. He said it&#8217;s equipped with 12 cameras that take pictures in front, behind and to the sides of the truck as he drives along, collecting data for a new Microsoft-owned mapping technology that will be featured in Ford Motors&#8217; new GPS systems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facet-tech.com\/partners.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #234b87;\">Bing<\/span><\/a>, maybe?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2009\/06\/facet_van.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2009\/06\/facet_van_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"346\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/washington.bizjournals.com\/washington\/blog\/breaking_ground\/2009\/06\/camera-laden_suv_mapping_dc_streets.html\">Washington Business Journal<\/a>\u00a0(Thanks Justin)<\/p>\n<p><!--tagline--><!--callback:show_user_comments--><!-- \/post entry --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the The Facet Technology Mobile 360 Van (Windows Live Local Van\/SUV) which was being used by Microsoft for it&#8217;s Street-Side Technology Preview for it&#8217;s Windows Live Local Beta back in 2006 (here\u00a0\/ here) is still on the road, this time in Downtown Washington D.C. in the United States. Looks like this is a new Van\/SUV make, look at<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/13\/windows-live-local-van-in-downtown-washington-dc\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows Live Local Van in Downtown Washington D.C.&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}