Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog

TNRIS just launched their new Emergency Resources web site just in time for Gustav to touchdown over Texas. The site overlays Doppler weather with a Virtual Earth map for storm tracking. You can also get down to a specific city, by geocoding places in...

Live Search Maps Taiwan just made it's debut (as Live Pages). This service is a joint effort between Microsoft Taiwan and Chunghwa Telecom, the largest telecommunication operator in Taiwan. This new service is created based on technologies from the following...

For those of you looking to continue using the Pharos GPS puck(s) that shipped with S&T the last few years and MapPoint 2006, you can now look forward to a new piece of geek gadgetry. MapPoint 2009 with GPS Locator and Streets & Trips 2009 with...

Yesterday we (Microsoft) launched the second beta for Internet Explorer - you can download the new web browser from the Windows IE8 web site . As you're browsing the web, you select the text on any page, right click (or just hover) and get a map using...

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.... Dear Virtual Earth Customer, As has been communicated periodically over the last several months, we’d like to provide you another friendly reminder and an update regarding the planned deprecation schedule for older...

I just joined Facebook. This is after a long, nightmarish experience of "friends" on MySpace forced me to delete my account (3 times) and depart from social networking sites altogether; however, I'm healed and recovered and now move forward...

Yeah, in MapPoint 2009 (and Streets & Trips 2009 ) we took out many of the colorful little pushpin icons included natively in previous releases of the product. We added the way cool "Import Custom Symbol" functionality, but for those of...

If you've ever had the need to acquire Virtual Earth aerial photography for uses outside of the Virtual Earth platform , your day has come. Starting today you can license Virtual Earth UltraCam (proprietary) aerial photography without having to license...

I missed this when I posted that the MapPoint 2009 trial version is now available for free download. Streets and Trips 2009 trial is also available for free download . Alternatively, soon you can also purchase Streets and Trips 2009 online or visit...

If you're excited about the release of MapPoint 2009 today should be a bit more exciting for you because we released the MapPoint 2009 trial version for free download . I did a whole write up on the MapPoint 2009 release , so if you're still wondering...

Canadian web site, Push , just rolled out their Virtual Earth integration to help skaters and snowboarders (ok, skiers too) find their local skate parks ski resorts (coming soon), respectively. Users can search and view extreme sports locations on a Microsoft...

Do you love Virtual Earth? Do you want to participate in generating revenue from Virtual Earth ? Do you run a development shop that is building some crazy, sexy applications that push the limits of geospatial and Virtual Earth? Then, you need to be a...

Feel free to bypass my blog and download Photosynther now . Photosynther is the client software to create your own Photosynth's viewable in the browser. Some of this post may look familiar to you folks who leverage search engine cache, but I've added...

A little linear algebra for you Canadians, eh? No less than 24 hours after I post " A Few Virtual Earth / Silverlight Demo Applications " I get an email from our Canadian Virtual Earth Sales Solution Specialist, Mike Pastushak, that The Weather...

You think you're a power user? Check out Tim McConnell's blog TimboTrip.com where he tells the story of his trip through the 48 Continental United States. The blog is an hilarious diatribe of his incidents and life while driving - nearly 15,000 miles...

Sealy just went live with their new distributor locator leveraging Microsoft Virtual Earth . Your basic, easy to use, easy to find our mattress locator. Enter a postal code on the home page to get there or go to the Sealy Distributor Locator page and...

A few months back I posted about Lots of Virtual Earth and Silverlight Development Outside of Microsoft and things haven't quite slowed down, now have they? I found a couple interesting applications with Silverlight and Microsoft Virtual Earth that I...

Ok, here's a new one. Clyde Ford is promoting his new novel, Precious Cargo by using Microsoft Virtual Earth in an online preview of certain pages within book. The map is used mostly to show places in the "Location Index" using our Bird's Eye...

For those of you in the states who went to the Microsoft MIX show this year, you got a first hand look at what's coming down the pike at Microsoft. MIX is THE HOTTEST show for online service (well, IMHO, of course). I presented a Virtual Earth session...

What's the Hollywood of China? Anyone? Well, CCTV is taking full advantage of their use of Microsoft Virtual Earth across their broadcast network. Here's some video footage of a CCTV news broadcast showing Virtual Earth aerial photos and road maps during...

If you've ever been on Live Search Maps , there's a good chance you've seen some of the advertisements we display on the site. I figured it was time to dive a little deeper into the opportunities that are available to you as a Virtual Earth platform customer...

I've been in the market for a motorcycle for the last year and have struggled to come to terms with the price of a brand new Harley-Davidson . Perhaps this is why I keep them so close to me as one of my customers hoping they'll throw me a bone (in a legitimate...

Earthquake damage assessment just got a little easier. In the spirit of the close of the ESRI User Conference , I figured it was appropriate to post a little something about a GIS application using Microsoft Virtual Earth - enter Inlet (Internet-based...

MetroPCS has just gone live with their new store locator featuring Microsoft Virtual Earth . Your basic store locator with a few attributions in which you can filter your search on. Enter any address, postal code or point of interest (ie. Statue of Liberty...

This needs little explanation, but I wanted to share this with the Virtual Earth crowd to show the raw power of the trueSpace 7.6 rendering engine. The following video shows a rendering of 1500 frames which took only 15 minutes to complete all in real...