

Organizations can now provide users with localized driving or walking directions in 15 languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Italian, among others. can now find the closest street address based only on latitude and longitude coordinates from a GPS or other geospatial device. Want to take the frontage road and avoid the highway at rush hour? Users can now choose alternate routes based on current traffic flows to get where they’re going faster. When traveling on foot, users in North America and the European Union can now find the most direct route to walk to their destination, ignoring one-way streets, medians, and other detours that pertain to motor vehicles. Enhanced Location Functionality New Walking Directions. Bird’s Eye Hybrid View.Ĭustomers can nowselect a new map style called Bird’s Eye Hybrid that adds street names to the bird’s eye maps to provide end users better visual context and orientation. Users can easily toggle bird’s eye view on and off for a seamless end-user experience.

Media producers can customize video output of 3D fly though tours in six resolutions, in 15 or 30 frames per second, and can add photos and hide or display pushpin icons. This is the Wynn Hotel where I’ll be staying in next week during the NAB show. You thought our photo-texturing was good before? Check it out now. This enhanced 3D map detail will soon roll out to the more than 250 cities where 3D models are currently available. With this latest release, the map detail for Las Vegas, NV Phoenix, AZ Dallas, TX and Denver, CO features improvements in 3D model accuracy and resolution detail to reveal more buildings, small terrain features, building textures, and trees that enhance overall realism. Precise imagery creates immersive end-user experiences that bring location-based information to life. Virtual Earth is an industry leader in providing precise views of the world through bird’s eye 1 view and panning, and improved 3D model accuracy and resolution, among other features. The Interactive SDK was updated, as well as, the Documentation. Below is a laundry list of new features in Virtual Earth that we added today.

The release has a host of new features and takes advantage of some of the capabilities you’ve been envying on Live Search Maps. Today we launched a new version of the Virtual Earth API.
