{"id":666,"date":"2006-05-24T11:25:31","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T10:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/24\/windows-live-local-birds-eye-view-available-for-london\/"},"modified":"2006-06-03T14:21:59","modified_gmt":"2006-06-03T13:21:59","slug":"windows-live-local-birds-eye-view-available-for-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/24\/windows-live-local-birds-eye-view-available-for-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Live Local Birds-Eye view available for London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the recent availability of new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/17\/new-windows-live-local-aerial-photography-available-for-the-uk\/\">Windows Live Local Aerial Photography for the UK<\/a>, and yesterdays <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/press\/2006\/may06\/05-23WLLaunchPR.mspx\" target=\"_blank\">New release of Windows Live Local<\/a> which includes real-time traffic reporting, new ways to collect and share search results, and\u00a0tight integration with Microsoft Office Outlook and Windows Live Messenger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/local.live.com\/?v=2&#038;cid=546E7E30AC2C5011!1193\">Windows Live Local<\/a> now has a Birds-Eye view available for London.<\/p>\n<p>And this after yesterdays press pass which said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Standard aerial imagery for the U.K. has been licensed from Getmapping plc. Microsoft is also working with the Blom Group to provide the unique bird&#8217;s-eye-view photos that will cover roughly 235 square miles of London in the coming weeks and will expand over time. Bird&#8217;s-eye-view imagery in the U.S. is provided by Pictometry International Corp. for 30 percent of the U.S. areas that are mapped. In Canada, bird&#8217;s-eye-view imagery will not be available in the initial release but will be introduced as the beta is built out and improved over the next several months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I guess it looks like we have Windows Live Local\u00a0Birds-Eye view imagery for London quicker than we might have expected, great work Microsoft!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/local.live.com\/default.aspx?v=2&#038;cp=skh77rh009n5&#038;style=o&#038;lvl=2&#038;scene=4269256\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/05\/londoneye_small.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msdiscussion.com\/index.php?showtopic=732\" target=\"_blank\">MS Discussion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the recent availability of new Windows Live Local Aerial Photography for the UK, and yesterdays New release of Windows Live Local which includes real-time traffic reporting, new ways to collect and share search results, and\u00a0tight integration with Microsoft Office Outlook and Windows Live Messenger. Windows Live Local now has a Birds-Eye view available for London. And this after yesterdays<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/24\/windows-live-local-birds-eye-view-available-for-london\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows Live Local Birds-Eye view available for London&#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-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","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=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}