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Map Views

At the top of the screen, seven more important icons appear. Most are
described later in this chapter, but for now, don’t miss the Map Views
button/menu.

It opens a palette of viewing options. “Aerial” displays the map as satellite

photos of the real world. Zoom in far enough, and you can find your house.
(As opposed to the usual view—roads represented as lines—which

Microsoft calls “Road.”)

Turn on “Traffic” to see free, real-time traffic reporting—color-coded on
major roadways, showing you the current traffic speed. Green for good

traffic flow, yellow for slower traffic, and red for true traffic jams. You can
even opt to see icons for Incidents (accidents and construction sites, for
your stressing pleasure) or Cameras (speed-trap cameras—beware!).

If you don’t see any colored lines, it’s either because traffic is moving fine
or because Microsoft doesn’t have any information for those roads. Usually
you get traffic info only for highways, and only in metropolitan areas.

“Streetside” is Microsoft’s version of Google’s Street View, and is
described next. And the Windows Ink toolbar ( ) provides a palette of

tools that, if you have a touchscreen and a stylus, let you draw or write
notes onto the map (great for showing other people important places or
directions) and measure distances.

Streetside

Streetside (Figure 8-14) is a mind-blowing way to explore maps. It lets you
stand at a spot on the map and “look around.” You’re seeing actual photos

of the street you seek; you can turn right or left and actually move through
the still photos. It’s a great way to investigate a neighborhood before you
move there, for example, or to scope out the restaurant where you’re

supposed to meet someone.

(To create Streetside, Microsoft, like Google before it, has to drive specially
equipped photography vans up and down every single road in the world,