Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog

A few months ago we launched our new marketing site @ www.microsoft.com/virtualearth . This site is a great place for a business decision maker to read up on Virtual Earth. The site is packed with information about the platform including News, Events...

Virtual Earth has a multitude of uses on the web, but now you can see it moving into the hotel lobby. Marriott is rolling out their "Go Board" which is a large screen in their hotel lobbies highlighting weather, news, events and other local information...

42.85 TB make up our March release of Virtual Earth data. Insane. Plus, we're hosting a whole new tile set that is out of this world! Orthos USA § Las Vegas, NV § Denver, CO § Phoenix DT, AZ § San Luis Obispo, CA Austria/Switzerland...

As a part of the Special Interest Group, I'm presenting Virtual Earth at the ESRI Developer Summit tonight @ 6PM along with Ed Katibah (SQL Server 2008) and Kevin Ramsaur (. NET). If you are here at the conference in Palm Springs, come to Oasis 2 &...

Yesterday, I did a Virtual Earth presentation in Second Life as a part of the Dr. Dobbs Life 2.0 Conference "inworld." What a trip. First off, I was asked to do this last week and having never even been in Second Life I had some work to do. About a year...

Perhaps you saw my MIX presentation of Virtual Earth in Silverlight . If not, check it out. In the meantime, you can check out Virtual Earth in Silverlight as the backdrop and interface respectively for the game Destroy All Invaders , by Andy Beaulieu...

Last October we released a version of Virtual Earth which included the ability to track and report on transactions (Version 6). While the Virtual Earth interface has thus far been AJAX, we introduced a component that required a non-scripting language...

The BBC is expanding their use of Virtual Earth . They released their School Report which brings in the news from all of the local schools from the UK and puts them on a map for easy navigation and exploration. I love this. When I was a kid reporting...

We posted a new case study about Microsoft and Cyberhomes which highlights some of the work Fidelity did with Virtual Earth . I worked with Marty Frame and team on their roll out of Cyberhomes.com which features maps and imagery from Virtual Earth . The...

I'm going to Miami this summer. I'll be attending the TeleAtlas Conference in June; however, that's not the point of this. I wanted to highlight what The City of Miami has done with Virtual Earth . There are actually several applications built atop of...

Next stop, Palm Springs . I'll be at the ESRI Developer Summit next week. I'll be working at the ESRI booth Monday, March 17 - Friday, March 21. Roger Mall (Virtual Earth Business Development Manager) and I will be demonstrating some extended capabilities...

The Code Trip is a bunch of Microsoft Technical Evangelists jumping on a bus and touring the western half of the United States to educate users on Microsoft technologies - the ultimate road trip. This is just fantastic! They're using Virtual Earth to...

Creating Microsoft Virtual Earth mashups and applications just got a whole lot easier. A group of 11 developers in the Code Plex community teamed up and in just 4 days produced a JavaScript library that generates Intellisense for the Microsoft Virtual...

Ok, with MIX behind us (just barely) I'm now looking forward to the GITA (Geospatial Information and Technology Association) Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference . in Seattle March 9-12. We'll have some presence at the show and I'll be there...

I mentioned previously that I written the Hands On Lab for Virtual Earth at MIX this year. If you went to MIX it's included on the DVD you got in your bag. If you didn't go to MIX, I believe the HOLs will be provided online at the MIX web site . For the...

I'm leaving MIX today. No, I didn't blog as much as I thought I would. My presentation was yesterday and I've been told it will be posted to the MIX sessions site sometime today - I'll post a link when I get it. Overall, I feel the show was a huge success...

Public sector? Firewall constraints? Can't access Virtual Earth over the Internet and you need a server based product for your mapping needs? Do you love Virtual Earth and all it's glory, but can't use it because of your network constraints? Wow, I sound...

I just arrived in Las Vegas from Seattle on a plane stuffed with Microsoft folks. We are all pumped about this show. There are tons of great sessions and some super exciting announcements. We've all be prepped for what's coming this week and it's going...

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We're doing a little house cleaning, so we're going to be taking down some of the older version of Virtual Earth. Notice was sent around to people with MapPoint Web Service / Virtual Earth accounts, so in case you don't have one you'll want to read the...