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Sunday, October 12, 2008 5:14 PM

Clustering Pushpins with the Virtual Earth Map Control API

One of the new features introduced in the Virtual Earth Map Control API is Pushpin Clustering. When there are hundreds of pushpin shapes on the map in a dense area, the map can become very cluttered. The pushpins can overlap each other and obscure the
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 6:48 AM

Virtual Earth v6.2 Map Control API Released

The Virtual Earth v6.2 Map Control API was released today!  It is reverse compatible with the v6.1 version of the API.  Here's a list of some of the new enhancements in the v6.2 API: Pushpin Clustering - This feature adds the ability to group
Posted by keithkin | 1 Comments
Thursday, September 25, 2008 6:39 AM

Announcing the Virtual Earth Platform Team Blog!

We have just created a new team blog for the Virtual Earth Platform team! Check it out! The Virtual Earth Platform Team Blog is a group blog owned by several functional groups within the Virtual Earth platform team including development, quality assurance,
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Saturday, August 23, 2008 6:20 AM

Virtual Earth API: Displaying Birdseye Maps With and Without Labels

One of the features added to the Virtual Earth v6.1 Map Control API is the VEMapStyle.BirdseyeHybrid map style. This map style allows you to show the Birdseye map style with street label overlays. If you use the default navigation control in your Virtual
Posted by keithkin | 1 Comments
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 4:51 AM

Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control Released!

The Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control has been released as part of the Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Community Technical Preview .  Now you can use the Virtual Earth Map Control API's without writing any JavaScript.  You can drag
Posted by keithkin | 1 Comments
Saturday, April 12, 2008 7:25 AM

Virtual Earth v6.1 Map Control API Released!

The Virtual Earth v6.1 Map Control API was released today.  It is reverse compatible with the v6.0 version of the API.  Here's a list of some of the new enhancements: Birdseye Hybrid - a new VEMapStyle.BirdseyeHybrid map style which allows you
Posted by keithkin | 1 Comments
Saturday, April 12, 2008 6:52 AM

Live Search Maps Update!

We just released an updated version of Live Search Maps built on the Virtual Earth platform. It is difficult to list all the new features, but here are some of the new features: Birdseye Imagery with Labels - Birdseye imagery now supports Road Labels
Posted by keithkin | 1 Comments
Friday, January 18, 2008 10:57 PM

Microsoft Research Releases Tiled Vectors Demo

Microsoft Research released a Tiled Vectors Demo which is available for download . The demo shows a way to solve the problem of showing extremely large mapping data sets in the web browser. If you have used the Virtual Earth AJAX/JavaScript Map Control
Posted by keithkin | 3 Comments
Friday, January 18, 2008 8:52 PM

Harley-Davidson Ride Planner with Virtual Earth

Chris Pendleton wrote a nice article on the Virtual Earth Evangelist Blog about Harley-Davidson's use of Virtual Earth in their Ride Planner application. The application allows you to view some great motorcycle rides across America. User can also upload
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:15 PM

Virtual Earth API: Implementing Drag and Drop in Virtual Earth

Steve Lombardi posted some nice samples recently on the Virtual Earth Spaces blog showing how to implement drag and drop on shapes using the Virtual Earth map control API. You just need to add a custom event handler for the "onmousedown", "onmousemove",
Posted by keithkin | 1 Comments
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 | 4 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
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