[ale] [OT] maps from Microsoft

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 19 16:34:42 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 16:09 -0500, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> On Friday 19 January 2007 15:30, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> | Those are site navigational buttons.  What you want are map navigational
> | buttons.  Look at the navigational panel inside the upper left corner of
> | the map. One of the image "buttons" shows tall buildings.  Click it.
> 
> Jim,
> I find this fascinating. My browser simply doesn't "see" this site the way
> your's does.  I get a dinky map right out of a map book maybe 320 X 480
> pixels. The "navigational panel" is on the right side next to a Microsoft
> MapPoint logo and only allows me to zoom and move in eight directions. I 
> can't find a way to make the map any bigger.
> 
> This comes from "searching" for Atlanta, GA, (top box) and USA in the lower
> box.  What I get from that "search" is an odd list of businesses in Atlanta.
> 
> If I try a search on Emory University, it tells me Emory is at 201 Decatur
> St. SE. ??!!  That address is much closer to Georgia State than Emory, which
> is miles from there.  The web site says its a "beta" site.
> 
> I believe it.

Very interesting.  What browser are you using, what is it's User-Agent
setting?  (see: http://whatsmyuseragent.com/)

-Jim P.
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