Finding your way around Live Search Maps
With Live Search Maps, you can view map locations in a few ways. Go to the Live Search Maps website and look for the view control that looks a bit like a compass.
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| View control |
The control has two mode options: 2D and 3D. (This article focuses
on the views in 2D mode, but you should also try 3D mode when you get the
chance. It's cool. You just need to install Microsoft Virtual Earth.) Search
for a location you're familiar with to see what the maps views can do for you.
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| Locations link |
Road view
The map automatically opens in road view, a flat
view that shows streets, highways, cities, and boundaries. Click Zoom in to get a closer look. Drag the map to reposition it, or
use the arrows on the view control to pan.
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| Road view |
Aerial view
Clicking Aerial switches to a photo map that shows
buildings and geographical features from space.
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| Aerial view |
Hybrid view
Clicking Hybrid combines both of these views by overlaying
street names on the aerial view.
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| Hybrid view |
Saving a collection
With the collections feature in Live Search Maps, you can create shareable lists of locations so you don't have to map the same places over and
over again. Perhaps you want
to build a handy collection of your favorite restaurants to share with friends, or, as in
this example, build a tour of hometown highlights to relive a simpler time in
your life.
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| Unsaved collection |
Begin by signing in to Windows Live. Click Add to collection next
to your search result. (If you've created a collection before, click Unsaved collection to save the location to a new collection.) Click
View this collection, and then click Save
it now to give the new, unsaved collection a friendly name. (Naming your
collection lets you save locations to pre-existing collections; otherwise, new
locations are saved to the Unsaved collection.)
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| New collection |
Add some descriptive information, and then click Save to add
your first pushpin to the collection.
To add another pushpin, right-click the map where you want to
place it, and then click Add a pushpin. Add some descriptive
information, and watch your collection grow.
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| Collection |
To see the collection you just made, open your collections, and
then click your new collection in the list.
Your collection is ready to return to, and to share as you like.
Help and How-to
