Windows Live Maps

I was recently playing around with embedding Google Maps, though in all honesty I was really looking at a bug that had been reported in Windows Live Writer. Now that I'm through that, I can express my unabashed love for Windows Live Maps. I work at MS, yes, but Windows Live Maps is simply a product that is good, no matter where you work. Here's a few of the things I really love about them:

1) The Single Box Address UI
Ok, I am expressing love for doing something incredibly obvious, but sometimes MS can be a little stubborn about the obvious :).

2) The new UI for controlling the map
The new controls consume _way_ fewer pixels, leaving more for the map itself. Nice.

3) Choose route based upon traffic
The fact that the traffic info which I already use a lot, now includes the ability to alter the recommended route based upon traffic is righteous.

Thanks Windows Live Maps!!!

 

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Comments

[Blair]

Hi Charles,

Just came from Ross Hawkins blog and I noticed your comment about Live Maps.
I'm already got websites running google maps and it was dead easy to get up and running. I've not found any info on the web to allow Live Maps to get up and running as quickly as they do.
Here are the instructions they I found:
http://gathadams.com/2007/08/21/add-google-maps-to-your-net-site-in-10-minutes/
It does use a third party DLL to allow use in .Net, but Microsoft should have this anyway, right :)

Can you help with my little challenge?