The competitors: Windows Live Search, Yahoo! and Google.
I was looking at some really nice maps of Washington, DC, last night on Live Search. I’m not totally up to speed on the latest advances in mapping technology, so I wondered if Live Search had totally leapfrogged the competition with this stuff, or if I could do the same thing on the other map sites.
Here’s what I found:
This is the best view I could get of the Jefferson Memorial on Yahoo!
Google is able to zoom in quite a bit closer.
But Live Search can do this!
Thank you, Bill Gates!
The killer feature (obviously) is that Live Search gives you an oblique view into the scene, instead of just a flat, looking-straight-down view. Plus the image resolution is a lot better.
Final Ranking:
- Live Search
- Yahoo!