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Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
Virtual Earth Certification
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
3
Comments
Trika was nice enough to point out that the beta for the Virtual Earth Certification Exam is now available. I like how I helped author the exam, but I had to find out through her blog that it is available - love it. Anyway, here are some details about...
Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
Virtual Earth Version 6 - Now Available
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
7
Comments
The Virtual Earth version 6 API is now available. The launch included several new exciting features documented in the online SDK .Moving from Version 5 to Version 6 is easy! You simply need to change one character in your .ashx link - change http://dev...
Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
MapCruncher Beta for Virtual Earth
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
4
Comments
It's official - MapCruncher is now a supported beta product by the Virtual Earth team! This is big. This means that MapCruncher has graduated out of Microsoft Research as a pet project with really cool implications to a fully supported application by...
Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
October Data and Imagery Drop
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
3
Comments
Another huge drop of data for your liking (38.1 TB). Here are the details: Vector North America and Europe Refresh of all North American and European road information Oblique Imagery (Bird's Eye) United States Worcester, MD Orange, CT Select areas...
Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
MSN Mexico, Motorola & Virtual Earth
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
1
Comments
MSN Mexico (aka Prodigy MSN ) launched an application with Motorola using Virtual Earth as a backdrop for community data. The concept is an exclusive site for Motorola and MSN which focuses on entertainment. The site consists of podcasts, editorial music...
Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
Locking a Virtual Earth Map
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
2
Comments
There may be times when you don't want to have a draggable map. Oh, yes all the flexibility of draggable maps makes AJAX and Virtual Earth so much fun! And, knowing you maybe be wreaking havoc on the image tile servers is so stimulating. Plus, with AJAX...
Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
Public Sector Virtual Earth Road Show
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
0
Comments
The US Public Sector DPE Team, in partnership with the Public Sector Virtual Earth & Vexcel Teams, is excited to announce the Virtual Earth Road Show! Event Date & Location: Date & Time Location Registration...
Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
FedEx Integrates Virtual Earth
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
5
Comments
Federal Express has launched their new drop box locator service using Virtual Earth. Search for the nearest drop boxes and you'll get a resulting list of locations. Near the top of the result list is a "View Area Map" link which opens up a div containing...
Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
New Imagery and 3D Models
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
1
Comments
More, more, more - 10TB more...... New / Updated cities in 3D Augusta, GA Denver, CO Avondale, AZ Gilbert, AZ Glendale, AZ Mesa, AZ Peoria, AZ Phoenix, AZ Tempe, AZ Tuscon, AZ Fort Worth (West), TX Chicago, IL Coral Springs, FL, Nashville Opry, TN...
Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
Environmental Protection Agency & Virtual Earth
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
2
Comments
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has licensed the Microsoft ® Virtual Earth™ platform on which to develop its mission-critical geospatial and mapping applications. The commitment to Virtual Earth will improve data sharing, analysis and insight...
Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
Marriott Integrates Virtual Earth to Find Hotels
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
1
Comments
Today, Marriott replaced their MapPoint Web Service maps with Virtual Earth maps. The implementation is pretty straightforward in that you search for a hotel and get results and an overview map with locations pushpinned onto the map.Each pin has a popup...
Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
Virtual Earth Version 5 SDK in Japanese
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
1
Comments
Since we have Virtual Earth localized in Japanese and have good imagery and street data in Japan, we figured maybe it would be a good idea to convert the Virtual Earth SDK to Japanese too for developers who prefer the local script. Using the localized...
Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
Weather Central and Virtual Earth
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
5
Comments
Weather Central recently launched their new broadcast platform using Virtual Earth . This is awesome for broadcasters who now have another option to visualize their news stories on maps, aerial photos and 3D. It took me a while to get a copy of this video...
Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
How To: Skipping Zoom Levels in Virtual Earth
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
0
Comments
One of my well respected customers asked me today if we would support the ability to change the way a double click action took place on the map. Specifically, they wanted the ability to double-click on the map and not just zoom in one level, but two or...
Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
Additional Virtual Earth Blog
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
1
Comments
Johannes Kebeck is a Technology Specialist on the Virtual Earth Sales Team. Besides being an all around studd, he now has a very developer-focused blog about building applications with Virtual Earth. Johannes has been helping our enterprise customers...
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InmanTV Interview
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
1
Comments
Hey, that's me ! In early August I was asked to interview with Jessica Swesey from Inman to talk about Virtual Earth at the Inman Real Estate Connect Conference In San Francisco . Apparently, the video was just published and was featured in the most recent...
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Disabling Pushpin Rollover Popups
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
2
Comments
So, I haven't done a Virtual Earth code sample for a while and have noticed that I've been hit with the question of "I have pushpins that I don't want rollover popups for. How do I disable them?" Well, here's how. 1. We'll start with a very simple...
Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
The WhereAmI Project
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
1
Comments
Several years ago we had a product called MapPoint Location Server. The concept was that we could tie into phone networks to find and/or track the location of people via their cell phones. The product itself was nothing more than a server client application...
Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
Additional August 2007 Imagery
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
2
Comments
We broke up the August release (in case you were wondering why there was only oblique {bird's eye} imagery in the last release ). Yep, more imagery - we know you love it - and, it's all live today on Live Search Maps . Here's the latest (mostly ortho...
Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
Microsoft vs. Google vs. Yahoo! vs MapQuest...A Customer's Perspective
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
1
Comments
Recently, one of our enterprise customers decided to re-evaluate their mapping options for their software needs. Now, of course, I'm going to be a little biased but I think the article lends itself to many who have to go through the trouble of deciding...
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Virtual Earth Imagery Update - August 2007
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
3
Comments
Better late than never, but I guy's gotta take vacation after the fiscal year! In case you haven't seen it elsewhere, here's the latest imagery updates pushed out to Live Search Maps / Virtual Earth (15.65 TB in all): New 3D Cities: a. Montreal...
Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
Live Search Mobile - Shipped
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
4
Comments
Live Search for Mobile Browse (point your mobile browser http://m.live.com ) If you’ve used this product before, then you’ll definitely notice the improvements. If not, we think it’ll earn a spot on your bookmark list. A Single Search Box: Tell...
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Virtual Earth @ WPC
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
0
Comments
Virtual Earth was featured in Steve Ballmer's keynote speech at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. Brian Hall (General Manager, Windows Live Business Group) demonstrated the infamous Contoso company's partner finding application. It's a fairly...
Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
Virtual Earth Survey
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
3
Comments
Got an opinion about Virtual Earth? Yeah, I know you do...I read the comments you guys post! :) Anyway, well, now there's a good way to report your thoughts, feelings, kudos and aggravations about Virtual Earth. Filling out this form will help us gather...
Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
New Partnership with Maporama
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Chris Pendleton
1
Comments
We've partnered with Maporama out of France to expand our services through a joint offering to the European market. Maporama brings a wealth of knowledge and deep local customer understanding to enable their customer applications. Now, their customers...
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