{"id":464,"date":"2006-02-28T12:31:30","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T12:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/28\/windows-live-local-technical-preview-street-side-edition\/"},"modified":"2006-02-28T16:40:01","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T16:40:01","slug":"windows-live-local-technical-preview-street-side-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/28\/windows-live-local-technical-preview-street-side-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Live Local Technical Preview: street-side edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u00a0the Windows Live Local team (formerly MSN VirtualEarth) will be releasing a Windows Live Local technical preview (pre-beta version) at <a href=\"http:\/\/preview.local.live.com\/\">http:\/\/preview.local.live.com<\/a> that will be\u00a0demonstrating the new &#8220;street-side&#8221; low\u00a0level imagery feature for two US Cities: Seattle and San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Now at\u00a0this point in time we only know that the low level imagery\u00a0will be\u00a0limited to the core downtown areas of Seattle and San Francisco but hopefuly as time goes by we will start to see more imagery appearing for other cities like London, Madrid, Rome, Paris.<\/p>\n<p>And though this service is not Live yet I do have a screenshot of it, which is the one you can see below, now as you can pretty much tell from the image it appears that you&#8217;re actual view of the streets is from inside a car, this\u00a0kind of reminds me of <a title=\"permalink to Virtual New York City Tour\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/16\/virtual-new-york-city-tour\/\">Virtual New York City Tour<\/a>\u00a0because even though that tour is of New York and dosent have a car it&#8217;s still using low level imagery, which is the way to go if we want to visit are Holiday over and over again and again until we get bored!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Mark Hatchman\u00a0at\u00a0PC Magazine has just\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,1895,1932067,00.asp\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> some more details of the Windows Live Local Technical Preview\u00a0including the release date and time, which if correct will be today at 12noon PST.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/02\/streetsidepreview.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/02\/streetsidepreview_small.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u00a0the Windows Live Local team (formerly MSN VirtualEarth) will be releasing a Windows Live Local technical preview (pre-beta version) at http:\/\/preview.local.live.com that will be\u00a0demonstrating the new &#8220;street-side&#8221; low\u00a0level imagery feature for two US Cities: Seattle and San Francisco. Now at\u00a0this point in time we only know that the low level imagery\u00a0will be\u00a0limited to the core downtown areas of Seattle<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/28\/windows-live-local-technical-preview-street-side-edition\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows Live Local Technical Preview: street-side edition&#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-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","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=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}