SkyDrive camera gallery now supports geo-tagging with Bing Maps

January 6, 2012 | By Surur

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With SkyDrive’s picture gallery getting more exposure due to being used for twitter pictures, it behoves Microsoft to improve this public-facing view of the cloud property quite rapidly.

LiveSide.net reports that the SkyDrive cloud app has been bumped to Build 3004 which appears to bring support for the geo-tags which automatically accompany Windows Phone 7 pictures. The tags are displayed via a zoomable Bing map in the side bar.

Once one does zoom in it is scarily accurate, so it is fortunately that by default this information is not shared with the public.

LiveSide reports that the SkyDrive team is already hard at work on version 16.3 (Wave 5 Milestone 3) of SkyDrive which is expected to bring many other new features soon.

Via LiveSide.net

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http://twitter.com/fganser Nando Ganser

It always good to see improvements however the size of these is.
The only problem here is that Microsoft i not doing anything on maps outside US or Europe, and Hotmail/Live ptalform is huge in other territories like southamerica, but Bing Maps sucks, if I look of a US address is great but what about more other lacations?
I watch some pictures and in that map corner I only see blank!, not even a street for lots of pictures, very sad compared to gmaps or some other.