{"id":547471,"date":"2005-12-08T14:27:54","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T14:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547471-a-new-angle-on-microsoft-maps.html"},"modified":"2005-12-08T14:27:54","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T14:27:54","slug":"a-new-angle-on-microsoft-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547471-a-new-angle-on-microsoft-maps.html","title":{"rendered":"A new angle on Microsoft maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Microsoft is to unveil a beta version of Windows Live Local, which is based on its Virtual Earth aerial image application that integrates local search, mapping, driving directions and yellow pages with a bird&#8217;s-eye view of major US cities. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">According to News.Com, the service will offer a 45-degree bird&#8217;s-eye view covering cities such as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle and Las Vegas. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The images captured by low-flying planes will be integrated with road and satellite maps to simulate 360-degree panoramas. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Users can switch between the aerial view and the birds-eye view of a map and choose between directional views to see the front or back sides of buildings, or zoom closer. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><i><font size=\"2\">INet-Bridge<\/font><\/i> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is to unveil a beta version of Windows Live Local, which integrates local search, mapping, driving directions and yellow pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}