What is the birds eye imagery in the Virtual Earth platform?
This is one of the best features brought to you by Virtual Earth. This feature allows consumers to change their point of vision from the road or aerial view to a bird’s eye (45 degree) view of the map. It looks exactly as it will be to a bird flying over the actual place. Currently, this feature covers more than a quarter of United States including major cities such as New York, LA, San Francisco, and Boston. It also functions in Australia, Japan and most of EU. Recently the Virtual Earth team has added many places in the Australia, Netherlands and Japan. As with the road and aerial map styles, you can use the standard navigation, methods for moving a bird’s eye image: you can click and drag the map, use the arrow keys on the keyboard, and use the PLUS SIGN (+) and HYPHEN (-) keys to zoom in and out. You can also click the zoom box to choose one of the two available zoom levels.
