Problem Solved: Producing Direct Links to Specific Locations with Bing Maps
During the past few days we mentioned Bing Maps a couple of times and more specifically Bing's Bird's Eye imagery that is very cool and useful. Comparing "Bird's Eye to Street View from Google is really unfair. Both offer different perspectives and depending on your information need. One might be better for your research on Monday but on Wednesday the other database helps you get the job done.
Yesterday, Bing Maps got a makeover and added some new features. The problem was we were unable to find the location where you could create a direct link to a specific location on a map and either place it on a web page, share it by e-mail, tweet it, etc.
2) Now that you've found the location you can zoom-in or zoom-out and view the aerial and "Bird's Eye" imagey by pulling down on the "aerial arrow" at the top of the page. Now you can select the type of imagery you want and it's easy to move from one to the other. It's interesting to compare the aerial imagery with the Bird's Eye content. Of course, it's also easy to move back to the map view. Btw, the Bird's Eye view is available for many locations around the world but it's still not available in some areas. If it's not available, the "Bird's Eye" box will not be active.
3) You've found the map and now you have the imagery you need. Now, how do you share it?
4) At the bottom of the page look for an envelope icon, Click it. You should see a box that contains a URL to that precise location. In many cases, once your looking at a Bird's Eye image you can zoom-in one more level.
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