Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog

More, more, more - 10TB more...... New / Updated cities in 3D Augusta, GA Denver, CO Avondale, AZ Gilbert, AZ Glendale, AZ Mesa, AZ Peoria, AZ Phoenix, AZ Tempe, AZ Tuscon, AZ Fort Worth (West), TX Chicago, IL Coral Springs, FL, Nashville Opry, TN...

There may be times when you don't want to have a draggable map. Oh, yes all the flexibility of draggable maps makes AJAX and Virtual Earth so much fun! And, knowing you maybe be wreaking havoc on the image tile servers is so stimulating. Plus, with AJAX...

One of my well respected customers asked me today if we would support the ability to change the way a double click action took place on the map. Specifically, they wanted the ability to double-click on the map and not just zoom in one level, but two or...

Federal Express has launched their new drop box locator service using Virtual Earth. Search for the nearest drop boxes and you'll get a resulting list of locations. Near the top of the result list is a "View Area Map" link which opens up a div containing...

Weather Central recently launched their new broadcast platform using Virtual Earth . This is awesome for broadcasters who now have another option to visualize their news stories on maps, aerial photos and 3D. It took me a while to get a copy of this video...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has licensed the Microsoft ® Virtual Earth™ platform on which to develop its mission-critical geospatial and mapping applications. The commitment to Virtual Earth will improve data sharing, analysis and insight...

Johannes Kebeck is a Technology Specialist on the Virtual Earth Sales Team. Besides being an all around studd, he now has a very developer-focused blog about building applications with Virtual Earth. Johannes has been helping our enterprise customers...

Since we have Virtual Earth localized in Japanese and have good imagery and street data in Japan, we figured maybe it would be a good idea to convert the Virtual Earth SDK to Japanese too for developers who prefer the local script. Using the localized...

Today, Marriott replaced their MapPoint Web Service maps with Virtual Earth maps. The implementation is pretty straightforward in that you search for a hotel and get results and an overview map with locations pushpinned onto the map.Each pin has a popup...

The US Public Sector DPE Team, in partnership with the Public Sector Virtual Earth & Vexcel Teams, is excited to announce the Virtual Earth Road Show! Event Date & Location: Date & Time Location Registration...

Hey, that's me ! In early August I was asked to interview with Jessica Swesey from Inman to talk about Virtual Earth at the Inman Real Estate Connect Conference In San Francisco . Apparently, the video was just published and was featured in the most recent...