On 14 Apr, 21:07, Paul Oter wrote:
On 14 Apr, 18:29, Mizter T wrote:

On 11 Apr, 02:44, "John Rowland"

wrote:
They've combined it with Multimap.

Though today things seem to have reverted back to how they were - when
I enter the http://maps.live.com into the address bar or click on
the "Maps" tab on the Live Search home page at http://www.live.com
I'm no longer redirected towards Multimap.

Thanks for the update; that's good news.


I sound like I'm President Bush, talking about "The Google" - "when I
enter The Live into the address bar"! As is so often the case my
comments suffered from the redraft and subsequent lack of the proof-
reading.


Were the complaints directed towards Microsoft deafening, or is this
perhaps merely a temporary reprieve for UK users because the Multimap
servers couldn't hack it?

Let's hope it's the former...


Though I'm minded to think it might be the latter! That said, who
knows how these crazy folk at Microsoft think. The whole thing might
drop off the net tomorrow. In fact, if Microsoft manages to buy Yahoo
it really might, with Yahoo (Local) Maps replacing it.

That's a service I've never used - until I tried it just now, and I'm
amused to see in the vicinity of Whitehall and the County Hall that
various gates of one type or another are marked on the map, either as
"Gate (Keyed Access)", "Gate (Permission)" or "Gate (Emergency)".
Looks like data intended for a sat-nav system but still it's a
different perspective I suppose, and neither Google Maps nor
(surprisingly) Windows Live Maps features Gates.

See:
http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=51....120825&zoom=17