Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog

The SDK for Version 5 is now live and available for online browsing or download . Start taking advantage of the following new features: A completely new, advanced set of features for Pushpins, Polylines and Polygons Support for Popup Info Boxes...

I get asked by developers a lot about how they can leverage the nifty drawing tools that are on Live Search Maps. Well, Johannes Kebeck (Virtual Earth, Technology Specialist) took it upon himself to write the code and document it for you. You can reference...

Homepages.com has launched their map based search using Virtual Earth. The solution leverages our local search API included within Virtual Earth to show home buyers not only where available properties are, but what local amenities are in the area. The...

John L. Scott does it again. JLS has rolled out their "neighborhood wizard" to help users more precisely locate a home on their consumer web site. JLS was the first to roll out a residential real estate site that featured auto-refreshing, draggable maps...

Chapters Book Stores is leveraging Virtual Earth to help Harry Potter fans find their bookstores in order to get their hands on a copy of the final novel in the series. As a personal fan of both VE and HP, I'm excited for the final novel so any way to...

In Australia the NineMSN team has just launched Goldrush – a big initiative to propel search usage. You can access the game from www.ninemsn.com.au or go direct to www.goldrushgame.com.au The Goldrush game was developed to drive Live Search queries...

Thanks to everyone who attended my Virtual Earth / Live.com Search speaking session and visited me at the Live.com booth @ Tech Ed this year. During my discussion I had promised I would post my app code for converting SOAP XML to JavaScript, so you'll...