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Monday, October 15, 2007

Party at Microsoft!

Today, we shipped a new version of the Virtual Earth website, maps.live.com!  One of the coolest new features is "1-Click Directions" (aka party maps) ... you pick a place to go, and it shows you up to four major routes to get there (like, "From the North, go ..." or "From the South, take ...") just like you would if you were giving directions to a lot of people who all want to get to the same place.  It's really cool, and it is based on the assumption that you generally know how to get to a major highway but don't always know how to get to your final destination, so why bother giving all those "turn out of your driveway and go down local streets for 0.2 miles" types of instructions?  Check out the party map for Microsoft main campus.

1 Comments:

At 8:15 PM, Blogger laurel said...

Score one for VE! That's nifty.

 

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