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Live Maps team has updated maps of Beijing just in time for the upcoming summer Olympic games at Beijing.

Here is the full list of updates courtesy LiveSide:

• Real-time Traffic in Beijing
• Send-to-Mobile for free for local search and transit routing result
• Transitdata refresh for existing 11 cities including 3 new subway in Beijing (No.10, Airport and Olympic).
• Expandedcoverage from 11 to 31 cities.
• Geocoding and Local Search
• Datarefresh for existing 114 cities including Olympic Venues.
• Support city and county name geocoding for areas outside of 114-city coverage.
• Olympicquery relevance improvement
• Local search category refinement
• Maprefresh for 10 existing major cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou etc.
• Expandedtile coverage for 30 more cities, totally 289 cities now.

Too bad they didnt add support for Birds Eye View which in my opinion is the best feature of Live Maps and the one which really differentiate it from Google Earth/Maps.

So if you are planning to go to Beijing for this years Olympics, make sure you take a portable device such as Windows Mobile to keep you up to date with all the cool site seeing and live traffic updates with the help of Live Search Maps on one of the most busiest city I have ever been to.