How Bird's Eye Navigation Works - Brady Bunch Style
When immersed in Windows Live Local you may see a yellow box appear in the upper left hand corner indicating "There is Bird's Eye Imagery available in this location." It's like finding buried treasure! Click the yellow box or the bird's eye link and you'll be taken to the location on which you're centered; the vantage point will be disturbingly different. You'll see an aerial photograph of the area take from a plane at a 45 degree angle. You'll also see 9 "navigation" boxes appear. In order to navigate north, south, east or west you need to switch pictures and here's how.
The picture in the center of the Brady Bunch window (Alice) is the image you're on now. The one above it (Carol) will allow you to pan north. Clicking the Carol tile takes you to the image due north of where you were in both navigation and in the main part of the page. So, the image you were on now moves from the Alice position to the bottom middle row - Mike - and Carol is now Alice - moving to the center. Marsha and Greg move to Jan and Peter respectively; as well, Jan and Peter move to Bobby and Cindy respectively; you get a brand new Marsha, Carol and Greg image. To put it all into context here's a comparison of the Brady Bunch Windows and Bird's Eye Imagery Navigation:
Marsha | Carol | Greg
Jan | Alice | Peter
Cindy | Mike | Bobby
matches up with:
NW | N | NE
W | You are here | E
SW | S | SE
You can also rotate an image from always having north at the top where available. The Brady Bunch characters don't rotate with the image, so you would navigate it the same as you would if the image was still northward up. That's they way they became The Brady Bunch. . . at least to me anyway.
