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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 4:14 PM

Virtual Earth API: Adding KML or GeoRSS Layers to the Map

One of the new features of the Virtual Earth v6 Map Control API is the ability to import KML layers on the map. Previous versions of the API allowed you to import GeoRSS using client-side XML parsing. However, one of the restrictions was that the GeoRSS
Posted by keithkin | 5 Comments
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 3:49 PM

Virtual Earth API: Bulk Adding Pushpins to a Layer to Improve Performance

One of the new features from the Virtual Earth v6 Map Control API is the ability to bulk add groups of pushpins to the map in one step. This improves performance when putting a large number of pushpins on the map since the HTML markup of the pushpins
Posted by keithkin | 3 Comments
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 8:01 PM

Virtual Earth API: Setting Altitude of Shapes

The Virtual Earth v6 map control API added support for setting altitude of VEShapes in Virtual Earth 3D. There is a new SetAltitude method on VEShape which takes in 2 parameters: VEShape.SetAltitude(altitude, altitudeMode); The altitude parameter is the
Posted by keithkin | 3 Comments
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:28 PM

Virtual Earth API: Customizing Mouse Wheel Zoom

The Virtual Earth map control supports several interactive ways to zoom in and out on the 2D map view. For example, you can: Click on (or click and hold) the zoom In/zoom Out icons on the navigation control. Double-click on the map to zoom in at a particular
Posted by keithkin | 2 Comments
Monday, November 05, 2007 11:42 PM

Virtual Earth API: Accurately Position Points in Birdseye

In the Virtual Earth v6 API, one of the new features is improved Birdseye accuracy. The Virtual Earth v6 API has some new methods to more accurately position pushpins when in Birdseye view. Satellite (Aerial/Hybrid) and Road imagery views are direct overhead
Posted by keithkin | 1 Comments
Friday, November 02, 2007 5:24 PM

Virtual Earth API: How to Create a Full-Screen Virtual Earth Mashup

Using the Virtual Earth Map Control API, it is very simple to create a mashup application that is full screen and takes up the entire browser window. Here is the source code for creating a v6 Virtual Earth full-screen mashup: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
Posted by keithkin | 1 Comments
 
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