Changing the appearance of the three dimensional maps in Virtual Earth
Once you can download the Virtual Earth 3D beta version you can use it. You can also control the views and make them appear, as you would like them to. If your computer or internet connection is slower than required, it may affect the download time. In such case, you can reduce the resolution of the images. This will ultimately reduce the download time as well and therefore you would e able to download the images much faster.
One more thing that can reduce the downloading time is choosing not to show computer generated images of buildings. These can appear when you are viewing buildings and similar objects in 3D. The procedure for doing so is as given below.
Open Live Search Maps
Then open Virtual Earth 3D if you have already installed it. However, if you have not done so, you can install it now. Live Search Maps will guide you over the installation.
a) Then go to the view controls and there choose the option 3D.
b) Then click the options button from the upper lift side of the Live Search Maps webpage.
c) Then in the Performance settings tab, choose the setting according to your choice from the Detail setting section. You can view a complete description of each setting by just clicking on the setting.
d) You can choose whether you want to view the 3D buildings on the 3D maps, or not. For this check or uncheck the check box named Show buildings.
e) Then in the box named Maximum disk cache size in megabytes, ensure that the maximum disk cache size does not exceed the available free space on your hard disk. In the box, the cache size is specified and it is a positive number only.
f) Then lastly click OK twice, on after the other.
Notes:
The three-dimensional data is available for the whole world. However, ht e3D views of buildings are not available for all parts of the world. If you want to know about the cities for which the 3D buildings are available, you can check at the “Current 3D Cities website”. Remember that this website is available only in English.
Changing the map views
With Live Search Maps, you can choose whether you want to view the maps in the road view or the aerial view. For some places around the world, you can also choose to view them in bird’s eye views. If you want that the names of roads and highways should appear, in the aerial or birds eye views, you can use the option add labels.
Road: The road views are the maps of streets, and highways. They also outline neighborhoods, boundaries, cities and some other features.
Aerial: these are the views in which you see the photomaps of buildings, and geographical features as well.
Bird’s eye: The bird’s eye views are like aerial photos. They are called birds eye views because in them you view different places, as they would appear to a bird that is flying over that place.
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