The Weather Channel Interactive Inc. today launched a new interactive online weather map that allows users to access and manipulate weather data down to the street level.
The tool, which uses Microsoft Virtual Earth and is available from all of the city pages at the weather.com Web site, links satellite and radar data to allow users to pan, zoom and animate weather information, according to The Weather Channel. Users can view road or photographic aerial maps to pinpoint weather in a user's immediate area, it said.
"Maps are one of the most viewed areas on weather.com, so we are constantly looking for ways to enhance them with the latest technology," Deslie Quinby, vice president of weather.com and marketing at The Weather Channel, said in a statement.
Virtual Earth is Microsoft's mapping and location service that the company uses in its own Windows Live Local online local search and mapping Web site.
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