Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog

Today we launched a new version of the Virtual Earth API . The release has a host of new features and takes advantage of some of the capabilities you've been envying on Live Search Maps. Below is a laundry list of new features in Virtual Earth 6.1 that...

For those of you who are accessing the Virtual Earth tile system directly for integration into a Silverlight, WPF or Flash interface we now have a way for you to legitimize yourselves. First off, we recognize that without a Flash control for the Flex...

Today, NBC launched there "Where in the world is Matt Lauer" campaign and this morning I saw that he was in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Wow - the ultimate boondoggle. What a stud. Anyway, as a part of this campaign, Live Search Club (free online games) has...

I love the big city. I spend a fair amount of time in downtown areas like New York, Seattle and San Francisco, so something like walking directions is a very valuable feature for me. I spend a lot of time in LA too, but who walks in LA?? You remember...

Virtual Earth will be featured in the Microsoft booth at The National Association of Broadcaster's Conference ( NAB ) in Las Vegas, NV starting April 14. " From Broadcasting to Broader-casting SM , the NAB Show™ has evolved over the last eight decades...

I've received a few inquiries about how to geocode with Virtual Earth. I thought this was pretty straight forward, but after hearing some feedback I figured it made sense to document this a bit further than the SDK does. First off, you should always pre...

I need to mention an API that many people don't know exist and that's the API that allows you to publish data right to Live Search Maps using URL parameters. If you click on the " Help " link on the bottom right of Live Search Maps you get a help file...

There's a new site on the web that focuses on calling out specific features of Live Search Maps - Virtual Bird's Eye . The site "focuses on linking to cool places, news stories, event and random locations." The site has tons of posts to cool places that...

As you patiently wait on the release of the docs (sometime around noon today) I figured I'd post a quick blog to get you testing the backwards compatibility (and some challenges associated with it). I'm going to use the geocoding application I wrote in...

Ed Katibah (Spatial Ed) and I are doing a workshop Monday, April 28 morning at The Location Intelligence Conference in Santa Clara, CA. The workshop will focus on integration points between Virtual Earth and SQL Server. The workshop starts at 9AM. We...

It's been a crazy travel schedule and I'm just now getting a chance to do some blogging (and not for long). NAB in Vegas was awesome - I had no idea how much cool stuff the media guys get to play with. Virtual Earth has been added to a lot of the editing...

The French MSN Entertainment team did a sweet mashup for the release of the new Indian Jones movie - Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull . The application highlights different scenes in the movie, specifically where they take place across...

More on the utilities front - BC Hydro is using Virtual Earth to show their customers outages that they are aware of in British Columbia. First off - I love this. I lost power in my house in Woodinville, WA when the wind storms 16 months ago knocked out...

For all you bloggers who like to use Wordpress, there's a new plug-in for dropping Virtual Earth maps onto your blogs (also compatible with Windows Live Writer - when you use Writer to insert a post in Wordpress). You can download plug-in from: www.vivelive...

2 Unlimited need not show for this party. Check out the latest video showcase the V2 Virtual Earth 3D building models. V2 of our building models are available in Las Vegas , Dallas , Denver and Phoenix . There are still another 250+ cities with photo...

Johannes Kebeck of our EMEA Virtual Earth Team is giving a technical briefing for Virtual Earth on May 8, 2008 @ 10 GMT, London. If you're available and interested you can tune into this free web cast to hear the latest and greatest about VE and a heavy...

I'll be stepping away from The National Association of Broadcaster's Conference in Las Vegas for a day to present at the Environmental Support Solutions Conference in Phoenix April 15. ESS is " the industry's premier conference dedicated to enabling software...

Marc Schweigert has updated his Intellisense helper for developing Virtual Earth applications in Visual Studio. The new version is updated to support the new features of Virtual Earth 6.1 . Read all about it on Mark's blog . CP