Virtual Earth & MapPoint B2B

For those of you who want to view the VE SDKs online (without having to download them), you can do so by following these links: VE Standard Control http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4334835 VE Commercial Control http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4334836

Alex Daley, Virtual Earth Technical Evangalist, gave a great presentation on integrating Virtual Maps into your web applications. You can view the recording here: https://www118.livemeeting.com/cc/mseventsbmo/view?id=1032286194&pw=57375BC3

There's a problem with MWS's documentation and naming convention for identifying how far results are from a given point. For example, let's say you run your FindNearby query around postal code 90210 (because you're Dillon McKay) and you want to find the...

When we talk about maps, most people will refer to which city or state they want to see. In fact, almost all mapping sites have forced us to input our city and state. So, when we talk about Windows Live Local people are continually wondering (and I've...

In mid- to late- January we'll be releasing a customer service release which is a small release between cycles. The following changes will be made as a result: Refresh of US Postal Code data. Addition of new world data set which will include...

Add features from Windows Live Local into your applications: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4304174

Virtual Earth now hosts it's MapControl at a different location. In order to take advantage of this, point your javascript link to http://dev.virtualearth.net/standard/v2/MapControl.js or download it into your project (much easier for if and when it's...

When immersed in Windows Live Local you may see a yellow box appear in the upper left hand corner indicating "There is Bird's Eye Imagery available in this location." It's like finding buried treasure! Click the yellow box or the bird's eye link and you...

Here are the places I've found where bird's eye imagery can be found. Albuquerque, NM Atlanta, GA Baltimore, MD Buffalo, NY Boston, MA Cincinnati, OH Indianapolis, IN Jacksonville, FL Jersey City, NJ Kansas City, KS ...

http://local.live.com Here are some of the features: Bird's Eye Images Driving Directions Custom Pushpins New Mouse Features Scratch Pad Updates Customer Page for Driving Directions

Chandu has finally finished and published his book on MapPoint. It covers all of our products including MSN Virtual Earth! It's published by O'reilly and can be found on MP2KMag.com . Here is a list of chapters: 1. Hello, MapPoint! Part I. MapPoint...

I've written a few applications using MapPoint's Web Service (MWS) and MSN Virtual Earth (VE), so I figured it might be helpful if I wrote a how to (C#). The flow of the data is fairly simple: User makes a request from a web page (default.aspx)...

The MWS 4.0 SDK doesn't appear in the VS 2005 table of contents since the SDK was written for VS 2003. Here's how to fix it: Open the VS2005 Help system, and go to the following topic: ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/dv_vscccommon/local/CollectionManager...

I just got the inside scoop on MapPoint 2006 new features: New Advanced GPS Features - The new GPS task pane takes information about your current location as determined from your connected, compatible GPS device and displays your current location...

Streets and Trips 2006 is now available in stores and online outlets. They are selling like hotcakes too. I was just on Amazon and noticed that Streets and Trips 2006 with the GPS Locator is ranked #1 in software. The newest version not only has updated...

I ripped some missing persons data from the FBI.gov web site and stuck it in MWS in order to create this nifty mashup which has 3 purposes: Allow people to see the last place missing persons were seen. Perhaps you've seen one of them in your area...