Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog

I was at a customer location recently and they asked me, "Why is your control so big? My performance is being hurt by having to reload this huge map control every time I load my page." Hmm, time to investigate.... I opened up Firebug in Firefox...

Juan DoNeblo has the skinny on rendering your ESRI .shp files on Virtual Earth . This is a fantastic how-to that was posted back in April around the time of the ESRI Developers Summit . Microsoft has a strong partnership with ESRI as they are one of the...

"Innovating to Improve the Planet." That's the mantra of the Microsoft Environment Group . Did you know about them? Their is sole focus is the environment and what we can do to improve it. In fact, their mission statement is posted on the main...

Catherine Heller and I did these videos last year for Channel 10 and for some reason I never found out they were published...until today. They're still valid (for the most part) though much has changed with the Live UI. It can provide you with some Virtual...

Marc Schweigert wrote a great blog post and provided some code samples for an application he wrote combining Virtual Earth and WPF . I absolutely had to post a traceback to his blog to get folks steered over to get the samples, because this is money....

20TB of new imagery....laughable compared to the 69TB+ from May's Virtual Earth Imagery Release ; then again, when's the last time you transferred 20TB of data? :) Here's the list for June: Orthos (Microsoft UltraCam) Toledo, OH Iowa City, IA Independence...

Perhaps you know that Virtual Earth-3DVia by Dassault Systems is our software for creating models in Virtual Earth 3D ; perhaps you didn't. I haven't seen many models built out, but what I've seen have been okay - just okay. If you have some sweet models...

We're just starting a new program called "GoVE" which enables municipalities, state and local governments, aerial photographers, carrier pigeons, whoever, to share your imagery with Microsoft for publishing onto Virtual Earth the platform that...

Friday we released an updated version of the MapPoint Web Service SDK 4.7 . There's nothing new in terms of functionality for the SOAP XML APIs, but we did update the docs to include a new version of the road network coverage. So, now you get a better...

The MSN Entertainment Team in The UK rolled their Celebrity Spotter out a bit ago, but has been getting good traffic, they continue to keep the feed of information updated and it has Virtual Earth as the interface for finding data. The concept is about...

It's Friday and a rare sunny, beautiful day in Redmond. I'm feeling good and will be hitting the outdoors as soon as possible - we tend to cut our days short when the sun comes out. Perhaps this is why response times from me are shorter in the summer...

Devin Coldewey has a great write-up on some new things the Surface team rolled out including their new SDK. But, more relevantly, a photo geotagging application for Surface using Virtual Earth . Per Coldewey, " Next we saw probably one of the coolest...

We've officially launched our staging environment which allow you to access Virtual Earth features without incurring transaction costs for hitting production. Plus, we can stage new features allowing you to new stuff and regression test for backwards...

I'm seeing lots of Virtual Earth integration in Silverlight light. And, I have to say I LOVE IT. Today is no exception. IDV Solutions just launched their Silverlight Map Viewer which is their new interface for their Visual Fusion Server product. This...

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is an incredible new visualization technology from Microsoft and since we are "One Microsoft" with some extremely exciting user experience software coming to the forefront - see Silverlight , Seadragon ...

MSNBC published a Virtual Earth map highlighting points along the Mississippi River (and one in Michigan) where towns are getting flooded in the Midwest United States. Each point represents a city with flood issues such as Rock Island, Il and hovering...

Tim Henderson (Virtual Earth Solution Specialist, South East US) sent me this video of a Central Florida News 13 broadcast using Virtual Earth. The video actually uses Live Search Maps and either a camera recording the screen or a scan converter to push...

Virtual Earth Blog Tags: Enterprise/Government Solutions I found the Tour de Korea - Japan 2008 Virtual Earth Mashup on the KGrand blog which actually has quite a few Virtual Earth Mashups for Japan . I wanted to call this one out because of it's timeliness...

CCTV (China Central Television) is the largest Chinese Broadcasting Company who owns the exclusive Olympics broadcasting rights for China. They just released their first version of Virtual Earth integrated with CCTV Olympics site for Euro Soccer Game...

Every now and again I get pinged by someone behind a firewall or proxy server that claims they can't install Virtual Earth 3D. I have some solutions that might overcome your problems. There WERE two problems with proxies and VE3D - (1) installing over...

I've been continuing to keep you updated on the imminent deprecation and auto-upgrade of Virtual Earth's legacy map controls . Well, you just got an addition 2 months to get those Version 6 apps tested against Version 6.1 before we auto-upgrade. Here...

A couple days ago, CNN was broadcasting news about the horrific weather in the Midwest. Well, it turns out they have a new option for illustrating their news stories with maps and imagery - Microsoft Virtual Earth . Check out the video below where CNN...

Yesterday's demonstration of Loopt's social networking application on the iPhone with Virtual Earth maps has inspired me to write about another mobile effort that Target Corp . launched just a couple weeks ago. The Target WAP mobile store locator using...

Who says Google gets all the love from Apple's iPhone? If you saw or read about the introduction of the new version of iPhone at The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, perhaps you caught Sam Altman, Loopt CEO, demonstrating Loopt's new application...

Are you kidding me? 69.2 Terabytes?? I was once asked at a show how Microsoft handles so much data when transferring it over the Internet to the data centers. New 3D models (Version 2 of the processing software). In addition to Dallas, Denver, Las...