Mar 2
Street Life
come on with me cruising down the street
who knows what youll see, who you might meet
Windows Live Local is rolling out the beta version of its Local Technology Preview program, which lets you cruise around cities (so far, only Seattle and San Francisco) at street level. There’s nothing to download or install. Steer using the arrow keys or mouse (If your mouse has a scroll wheel, you can use it to zoom the overhead view in or out. Or use the +/- keys.). It tends to be sluggish at times, so you might want to give this one a pass if you’re on a dial-up connection.
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When this thingy will let me in a bar and sell me a brew, then I’ll see. Meanwhile, being a Bill Gates’ product, it can wait…
Local Technology Preview
Windows’ Local Technology Preview lets you drive around Seattle or San Francisco combining a database of street-level photos with top-down satellite imagery. Neat. I drove from San Francisco’s Chinatown out to Haight/Ashbury then on through the park …