Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog

How's this for a Virtual Earth imagery, cartographic map and 3D model update? Yes, the API is updated too. :D 1.) Updated road/hybrid map styling for the entire world . o Includes… § New road map data for North America. § New Japanese road...

Bank of America is the latest customer to adopt Virtual Earth for their retail locator application . Enter your street, city and state for the most accurate results or just put in a postal code. You can preselect the type of outlet you want - banking...

The SDK for Version 5 is now live and available for online browsing or download . Start taking advantage of the following new features: A completely new, advanced set of features for Pushpins, Polylines and Polygons Support for Popup Info Boxes...

I get asked by developers a lot about how they can leverage the nifty drawing tools that are on Live Search Maps. Well, Johannes Kebeck (Virtual Earth, Technology Specialist) took it upon himself to write the code and document it for you. You can reference...

Homepages.com has launched their map based search using Virtual Earth. The solution leverages our local search API included within Virtual Earth to show home buyers not only where available properties are, but what local amenities are in the area. The...

John L. Scott does it again. JLS has rolled out their "neighborhood wizard" to help users more precisely locate a home on their consumer web site. JLS was the first to roll out a residential real estate site that featured auto-refreshing, draggable maps...

Chapters Book Stores is leveraging Virtual Earth to help Harry Potter fans find their bookstores in order to get their hands on a copy of the final novel in the series. As a personal fan of both VE and HP, I'm excited for the final novel so any way to...

In Australia the NineMSN team has just launched Goldrush – a big initiative to propel search usage. You can access the game from www.ninemsn.com.au or go direct to www.goldrushgame.com.au The Goldrush game was developed to drive Live Search queries...

Thanks to everyone who attended my Virtual Earth / Live.com Search speaking session and visited me at the Live.com booth @ Tech Ed this year. During my discussion I had promised I would post my app code for converting SOAP XML to JavaScript, so you'll...

The following imagery was added to Virtual Earth (and Live Search Maps) today. Can you say 11.5 terabytes of new imagery data? Hi-res Orthos (using the UltraCam camera) Canadian Areas... • Toronto US areas... • Savannah, GA • SaintPaul, MN •...

I'll be doing a web cast covering the technicalities for Virtual Earth, Version 5. It's a Level 200 course and should last about an hour with time at the end for Q&A. It's on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 @ 10AM PDT. Here's the description: Join this...

I'll be working the booth at the Maker Faire this weekend in San Mateo, CA. I'll be showing some cool sites that are using VE, showing off some coding and highlighting our consumer site features. Stop by and chew the fat with me.

I'll be working the booth at Where 2.0 and running the " Going Deep with Virtual Earth " session of "Bird's of a Feather." You'll want to get there early for Erik Jorgensen 's session called, " Building out a 3D World. " Also, see Stephen Lawler talk...

Priceline.com just rolled out a new way to visualize locations on a map using Virtual Earth. Do a search for a hotel and under the "Area Map" tab you will see your results on a Virtual Earth map. The map includes a mini-map in the upper right hand corner...

RealEstatePlus.ca just launched their site using Virtual Earth. To try it out, enter postal code "M6S 4H7" in the search box. Hover over a listing on the map and select “View Demographics” in the pop-up. You get tons of demographic data about that neighborhood...

Mark Merchant - Virtual Earth Technology Specialist for the East Coast - will be presenting on the Russ and Joe Developer Show on Wednesday May 16. Mark will cover how to build applications with Virtual Earth and provide an under the covers look at Virtual...

Tyler Davey from Infusion Development will be providing a business (level 100) overview of Virtual Earth May 7 @ 1PM PDT. Follow this link to register for this web cast.

Tonight is the night of the big mashup camp for all you late night campers. It will be @ The Venetian in the Tuscana Room 3701 (3rd Floor) from 8P - 2A. For those of you unlucky enough to not be here, fear not. You can have access to the Virtual Earth...

We just released tons of new imagery and 3D models. The list is below... New UltraCam Orthos (2D Aerial/Hybrid) USA La Jolla, CA La Mesa, CA Malibu, CA Miramar, CA San Francisco, CA Aurora, IL Indianapolis, IN Joiliet, IL Naperville, IL Speedway, IN...

Move.com (aka Realtor.com) launched tonight using Virtual Earth for their home property search. Move had previously been using Virtual Earth for their rental property search and now has expanded to include their houses for sale search. It's a pretty slick...

Here's the official release doc for Virtual Earth V5: The new Virtual Earth platform The Virtual Earth platform is an integrated set of services that combines unique bird’s eye, aerial, and 3D imagery with best-of-breed mapping, location and search...

This blog is getting stale and needs a new owner, so I'm taking over. I've been running the Virtual Earth & MapPoint B2B Blog for a couple years and with my new gig as the Virtual Earth Technical Evangelist it's probably good to focus on the developer...

A nice improvement was just released for Virtual Earth’s Birds Eye navigation at http://local.live.com . The Birds Eye navigation thumbnail grid has been replaced with an inset map for easier usability (see screenshot below). Please note, this feature...

Virtual Earth powered real estate search has been a subject of this blog many times in the past few months. And, again, a number of additional companies have gone online with a Virtual Earth powered real estate search, bringing that same great experience...

The launch of Virtual Earth 3D makes the power of Microsoft’s new online mapping platform available to Web developers as well as Live Search customers. Virtual Earth 3D provides developers with an immersive 3D application environment to implement searching...