Hey Rebbecca. THis could be a good feature to add to your website for visitors to use. Virtual Map of Jamaica. You can Zoom in and out. Right click for more options

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=18.05709~-77.328644&style=h&lvl=9&tilt =-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&encType=1

I couldn't get a map of jamaica to show. What keywords did you enter?

Eric,
Microsoft Virtual map. I got the map of Jamaica but no Treasure Beach, Santa Cruz, and vicinity Yes.
I clicked on the url that is submitted by itsOK the write.

SANTA CRUZ is there. Remember as more people(Jamaicans) use this "TOOL" the code behind this website will alert Microsoft that they are getting significant traffic from Jamaica. This increased traffic will then lead to Microsoft adding more detail to the Jamaican map. So keep looking and clicking. Everyone wins

Santa Cruz link

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=18.057579~-77.711105&style=h&lvl=12&ti lt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&encType=1

Here is a virtual map of Jamaica from Google. Seems to Zoom in further. Click Click Click

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=18.020528,-77.387695&spn=1.52528,2.202759&t=h &z=9&om=1

Limited, but still helpful. We can tell people that Great Pedro is readily identified below and left of "Drummond", and Great Pond stands out. I'm guessing Marchioneal is TB Hotel? (And that's not a little bay; it's the shadow of the cloud! It's much more useful going beyond the (unmarked) Billy's Bay through Pondside to Black River.

Have you tried downloading Google Earth free from http://earth.google.com ? The detail is not bad and I think you can zoom in a bit further than Google Maps.

Google Earth is definitely more fun. It allows you to zoom very close, tilt the earth and "fly" right over Treasure Beach. Amazing.

Google Earth allows more zooming than Google Maps. Though, you have to install it, and that is always a pain. Depending on the area, it does better than Microsoft Virtual Earth, too. I think Google Earth gets decent detail in TB, except that when they did half the mapping, there was a gigantic cloud overhead obscuring a lot of the roads (which might actually be helpful...) I'm not sure if google maps is affected. Stands to reason that they use the same underlying imaging.

Make sure you check Google Earth regularly for updates (Menu - Help, Check for Updates Online) as the pictures do get improved as time goes on.