Virtual Earth’s fabulous features
In Virtual Earth, you can export KML files and share these files with other users using Google Maps. Some new features are added in the program Virtual Earth. Now Virtual Earth program is able to draw polygons on different maps as well as collaborate with other users through web. It is killer feature for those who wish to share GPS layers with other users. You are able to navigate in bird’s eye utilizing new inset map that is very similar to trips as well as streets. You are even able to drag to the end of a birds eye scene, and Virtual Earth will attempt to bring in the scene depend on where you are dragging.
Many other new features are also added in this program. Address-only Geocoding, driving direction enhancements and live search maps for outlook are new addition in the program Virtual Earth. When user creates a route in live search maps, incident as well as traffic flow information display automatically. In the Directions window, you will find a link to toggle the traffic overly off when it is no required. It can save you from having to know if any city has traffic or not. It is also great reminder for checking actual-time traffic at the time when you are planning your route.
The Itinerary display has undergone a face lift for improving instruction readability. Address-Only Geocoding is another great feature of this program. This feature allows you to find many addresses in the same city or your map view is already there around the city that you are searching. In the past, you have to enter full street address with state, postcode and city information like 12—Madison ave, NY. But now our job of searching city becomes easy. Now if your maps are already there, you have to enter only street address like this 1200 Madison Ave. You will see Live Search Maps default to find it in NY. Live Search Maps for outlook is great plug-ion for Microsoft outlook, which can bring travel plan meeting enhancements, location based features, maps and more than this. This great release supports Windows Vista and Outlook 2007 as well. It can even bring 3D mapping experience in Outlook.
It can be also used on iPhone. Whenever you will try any iPhone development with the program Virtual Earth you will observe that it swears up a storm beat your computer, lost hours of sleep wondering how Weather Central and Loopt got their iPhone applications. Live Labs team released a free version of Seadragon browser for iPhone. It provides you a killer photo viewer. It also includes Microsoft virtual earth. This great application permits user to navigate the world in aerial, Hybrid and Road modes. You are also able to set you location utilizing iPhone GPS at startup and it will automatically drop a pin on that particular location.
You are also able to pinch the screen to zoom in as well as unpinch the screen to zoom out. Double touch can recenter and zooms on the particular location. When you physically turn the device, map will surely turn with you in pure iPhone style and in something that is not available in recent 2-D version of Microsoft Virtual Earth.
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