Live Search Maps for India Launched
Live Search has launched a new website for Live search Maps in India. The Live Search maps India has Street Maps for 9 important Indian cities Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, and Jaipur and National Road Network of India with roughly 20,000 cities/towns/major localities. The maps also has political Map of India with important geographical features that includes national roads connecting around 20,000 Indian cities.
Important places likes monuments, restaurants, hotels are presented as icons in the maps for these 9 cities mentioned above. There are 2 searches mainly, one is the global location search and the second one is the businesses listing search. In this you can search for any business listings in Yellow pages in any particular place.
The maps also features Routing/Driving Directions for these cities. Under this, one can route from a given source to a destination. Source and destination can be specified in multiple ways – by right clicking on the map, or by hovering over the search result displayed on the map or by hovering over the pushpins in the collections or by clicking directions link from menu and typing in the required addresses/locality/places/route.
Apart from this users can also share and print the map or driving directions. There is option to create collections of pushpins, custom drawings on the maps, routing etc. and save it against a Windows Live ID for viewing later.
There are still lots of feature coming up like 3D view, bird’s eye view, Ariel and hybrid views.
