Live Maps / Bing Maps
Microsoft Maps Online
- Live Maps Birds Eye View
Bing Maps (previously Live Maps or Live Search Maps), is a web-based mapping service that enables users to search worldwide for addresses, businesses, landmarks and street names. Users can select from a road-map style view, a satellite view or a hybrid of the two.
Locating GPS coordinates on Bing maps
If you are looking a particular spot on a map and then want to locate its GPS coordinates follow these hints:
- Right click on the desired place and place a mark by choosing the Set mark option
- Hover over that mark and save this place
- After having saved the place export it to an GPX file with the correct coordinates inside the XML File, just search for lat= and long=
Birds Eye View Maps
Bing online map service also provides users with “bird’s-eye” (birds eye view) images for many world’s biggest cities as well as with 3-dimension maps (Live Earth) with virtual 3D navigation and to-scale terrain and 3D buildings.
Bing Maps WorldWide Telescope
Now Microsoft WorldWide Telescope is a part of Bing Maps. Just go to Bing Maps, click on “Map Apps” and select WorldWide Telescope to enable the app.
