Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog

Brian Flood from Spatial Data Logic has released an add-in for ESRI ArcGIS which enables data visualization in Microsoft Virtual Earth called Arc2Earth . Arc2Earth has historically allowed for visualization in Google Earth and Google Maps, but most recently...

We had some features for Version 6 that didn't make it into the last release in October, but we really wanted them to be available now so we shipped them in a QFE. There was a newsletter that went out to all licensed customers and I wanted to ensure the...

The latest release of imagery and photogrammetrics includes 36.3 TB of photography and models of 58 new cities worldwide! At a high level we've updated the Manhattan imagery, added 44 new cities with our Microsoft (Vexcel) ortho imagery, 36 new US bird...

Every now and then the Virtual Earth Marketing Team posts case studies for technical decision makers to read about how other companies are leveraging Microsoft mapping platforms. We've posted two of them recently that give an in depth understanding of...

We've set up a few surveys to get a better understand of what it is you actually want out of a mapping platform; or, at least from our mapping platform. Better route data? Higher resolution imagery? More data layers? Tell us your thoughts. There are a...

Yesterday we announced the launch of our Live Search Maps localization of world locations in Chinese including street level data for China. Today, we've added Live Search China results to include local links through to our Live Local Search using our...

We've launched our Live Search Maps site in Chinese ! Not only that but we have street data for China! The first public release supports most basic map and local search features across China with details for 114 cities, plus a Public Transit feature for...

Today, we're announcing our acquisition of Multimap . Here's the release briefing: Microsoft Acquires One of Europe’s Top Online Map Services Acquisition of Multimap will help Microsoft deliver new, expanded services on the Web. LONDON — Dec. 12...