Microsoft Virtual Earth (maps.live.com) search url?

[Dr Lobster*]

with google local i can search directly from my own search page using this query string: http://www.google.co.uk/lochp?q=

but i've not been able to find out how the search strings in microsoft virtual earth are constructed. any ideas what the search string is?

[Nate J]

I was looking for one of these but gave in - I'm not sure if they're smart enough to think of putting one in.

[Dr Lobster*]

in that case, i'll clear my proxy logs and visit it a few times and try to work out what's happening and work out how virtual earth is sending requests back to the server.

it might take me a while because i need to bring one of my spare monitors down - i'll let you know what i find out

[marksi]

I find that site buggy. It frequently tells me that there are no birds eye pictures available for my area despite the fact I know there are because I've seen them. It just doesn't work properly.

[lukey]

I've been trying to figure this out. There are probably ways of building searches with queries, since you can build email links, but these use 'point' references, eg. http://local.live.com/?v=2&sp=Point.t9r ... 0Edinburgh

It might be possible that there are other methods other than point that can be used to build links, but I suspect with all the AJAXness Live Local is using, it won't be too easy to extract.

[MarkN]

with google local i can search directly from my own search page using this query string: http://www.google.co.uk/lochp?q=

but i've not been able to find out how the search strings in microsoft virtual earth are constructed. any ideas what the search string is?

http://maps.live.com/?q=QUERY+STRING

e.g.
http://maps.live.com/?q=Basingstoke

[lukey]

with google local i can search directly from my own search page using this query string: http://www.google.co.uk/lochp?q=

but i've not been able to find out how the search strings in microsoft virtual earth are constructed. any ideas what the search string is?

http://maps.live.com/?q=QUERY+STRING

e.g.
http://maps.live.com/?q=Basingstoke

Oh...well...yeah, I SUPPOSE that'll do. Sheesh!

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