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You can organize the collection in live maps with scratch pads. Live maps automatically save the changes you make in the collection.

Creating collection with scratch pad: To create collection, first go to live maps.com and then open collections in the tool bar. Then add items in scratch pad and then save them.

Modifying collection: You can add, change or delete anything in collection with the help of scratch pad. First, go to live maps. Com and then open collection in tool bar. Then on the scratch pad click down arrow next to collection. Then do the necessary changes in the collection you want to make changes.

If you are taking trips often or visiting friends and relatives frequently, then street and trips is for you only. It helps you to plan the trip, choose the driving routes and so on. If you want to select an alternate route, you can do it without going to online again. Street and Trips offer you more tools to plan the tour in advance.

Microsoft Map point web service is developed for business people and software developers to enable them to do location-based services like maps, driving directions and local search. Business people can use them for business and software applications. Map point service help improving the business through better searching of locations and assets related to business.

It also provides set of mapping content like business listings and some other points of interests that can be used in business applications. At present, it is supporting 15 million transactions daily. It is a powerful mapping service that integrates locations to business solutions. It reduces cost and removes the burden of IT management as it provides cost effective investment.

Live search map offers you a number of benefits including location search and driving directions. You can get real time driving directions from live maps by specifying start and end points. It may be street names, city or land marks or just select the points in the live map. Then it will give you turn by turn driving direction.

Earth browser is a present 3-D image of earth with updated information. It shows a high resolution image giving a precise picture of earth. The image can be rotated and its any part can be magnified. It is free and is provided in demonstration mode with some features disabled.

Earth browser is a copyrighted program of Lunar software, Inc. Features of Earth browser are 15 meter per pixel resolution, three 500m resolution maps of the Earth, daily updates, weather forecasting, weekly aquatic surface temperature animations, tropical storm and hurricane tracking, cloud animations, earthquake maps with magnitudes, Antarctic iceberg tracking, political borders, around 15000 volcanoes, times of all World time areas and screensavers also.

There are number of developments in World wind project. Road map is one among them, which is an indication of near future in NASA World wind project. It provides more Essential data that can be used for mission planning, scientific research activities, government functions and so on. It aims to provide data to suit all requirements.

More plug ins and add ons are added to the new version of world wind 1.4. Sun shading and atmosphere scattering are yet another enhancement in WW 1.4. It will provide the realistic images of sun shading. However, remember this version will run only in modern pc with 3 D graphic cards.

Add ons are new features of world wind that will allow you to vie any areas of interest. There are tools to create add ons. Level creator is a tool that helps to create new lower levels to a layer. This will be of great help in world wind layers that requires zoom in. Tiles download is another tool to download tiles. It is helpful in offline viewing and in copying tiles to or from cache memory. It uses separate files for different data sets like Land Sat, SRTM, moon and others.

World wind is an open source application developed by NASA with a view to enable every individual knows about the researches of NASA. You can use it for education, research or simply for fun. As it is a free source application, you can extend or embed the source code to suit your personal use and can share with other users through web.

There are some attractive things that you can do with world wind. You can view your house or city or even village. World wind has place name feature that lets you see your city or village. You can explore the mountain or ocean in 3 D.

Add-ons allow you to view the areas of your interest and trails. World wind central has a full list of add-ons arranged alphabetically for NASA world wind.

Creating add-ons :

Add-on are new feature of world wind and they are not produced by NASA. You can use them to view other planets or to magnify the areas, which are not covered by NASA. Add-ons can be viewed for education purposes or for mere fun. Add-ons are produced by different individuals from world wind community and World wind central will not be responsible for any damage or problem caused due to the installation of add-ons. There may be chance of software virus hiding in add-ons. So scan them before you download them. Also check whether your virus checking software is up to date.

Stellarium is software planetarium that is free of cost. The GNU general public license decides the terms under which Stellarium is registered. It is available for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. In order to render a realistic sky in real time, it uses OpenGL. Stellarium makes the viewing of astronomical objects possible which may be impossible to see with small telescopes, binoculars or naked eye.

Fabien Chereau, the French Programmer developed Stellarium. This project was launched in summer of the year 2001. Other prominent developers responsible for the networks were Johan Meuris, Robert Spearman and Johannes Gajdosik.