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. The latitude and longitude coordinates are hardly to be determined from this mode, if you move around the map since the initial view.
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.
