When you see this, you've gone too far ... not with maps.live.com directions.

How do you give directions to friends? How many times do you tell them, if you see the Starbucks you've gone too far -- maybe Starbucks is bad example because they are everywhere, but you get the point. It's a really useful way to give directions.

When I went to Design Thinking to see Chris Bernard, I found that the new maps.live.com (aka local.live.com) that went live this week does just that. Check this out:

It's a few of the very cool new features that came out with the latest release of local live ... or whatever that's called. There are more new neat features that make me think the Wow is really starting now. The whole overview of new features is posted on the Virtual Earth blog at: Live Search Maps v2 is out! Gemini Launches.