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Top 10 Features You Didn't Know About in Live Maps

posted by Satri on Monday March 05, @11:12AM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the what-do-you-want-to-know? dept.

The Live Maps/Virtual Earth blog shortly describes a top 10 features you didn't know about in Microsoft's Live Maps. From the entry: "Put a Collection on your own website: this one is a bit nerdy and isn't entirely specific to the Live Maps website. It's also pretty broad in scope, but super powerful. basically you can publish a map to your website with custom data layers, without having to use a GIS to create the data or know much about. to update the map, you simply edit your Collection interactively at Live maps, and your custom map on your site is automagically updated in real time."

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• Just posted the follow up mini-tutorial

  (Score:2, Informative)

  by Anonymous Voxel on Monday March 05, @09:02PM (#1277)

  I just posted the follow up article explaining how to put a map on your website in 10 minutes with a custom data layer. This was the 'feature' i listed at number 1 in the original article, and the one that you called out above. here is the link
  
  http://virtualearth.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2BBC6 6E99FDCDB98!8240.entry [live.com]
  
  • Re:Just posted the follow up mini-tutorial by Satri (Score:2) Wednesday March 14, @11:20AM