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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 7:49 PM

Virtual Earth SDKs Available Online

For those of you who want to view the VE SDKs online (without having to download them), you can do so by following these links: VE Standard Control http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4334835 VE Commercial Control http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4334836
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Thursday, December 15, 2005 9:38 PM

Windows Live Local Tips, Tricks and Hacks

Alex Daley, Virtual Earth Technical Evangalist, gave a great presentation on integrating Virtual Maps into your web applications. You can view the recording here: https://www118.livemeeting.com/cc/mseventsbmo/view?id=1032286194&pw=57375BC3
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 1:38 AM

MWS FindResults.FindResult Distance Issue

There's a problem with MWS's documentation and naming convention for identifying how far results are from a given point. For example, let's say you run your FindNearby query around postal code 90210 (because you're Dillon McKay) and you want to find the
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Friday, December 09, 2005 9:58 PM

Windows Live Local Bird's Eye Imagery <strike>Cities</strike> Counties

When we talk about maps, most people will refer to which city or state they want to see. In fact, almost all mapping sites have forced us to input our city and state. So, when we talk about Windows Live Local people are continually wondering (and I've
Posted by cpendle | 1 Comments
Thursday, December 08, 2005 10:41 PM

MapPoint Web Service Customer Service Release

In mid- to late- January we'll be releasing a customer service release which is a small release between cycles. The following changes will be made as a result: Refresh of US Postal Code data. Addition of new world data set which will include street level
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Thursday, December 08, 2005 10:07 PM

Windows Live Local SDK NOW AVAILABLE

Add features from Windows Live Local into your applications: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=4304174
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Thursday, December 08, 2005 1:28 AM

Change Your MapControl.js (to V2)

Virtual Earth now hosts it's MapControl at a different location. In order to take advantage of this, point your javascript link to http://dev.virtualearth.net/standard/v2/MapControl.js or download it into your project (much easier for if and when it's
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Wednesday, December 07, 2005 10:05 PM

How Bird's Eye Navigation Works - Brady Bunch Style

When immersed in Windows Live Local you may see a yellow box appear in the upper left hand corner indicating "There is Bird's Eye Imagery available in this location." It's like finding buried treasure! Click the yellow box or the bird's eye link and you'll
Posted by cpendle | 4 Comments
Wednesday, December 07, 2005 10:03 PM

Windows Live Local Bird's Eye Imagery Cities

Here are the places I've found where bird's eye imagery can be found. Albuquerque, NM Atlanta, GA Baltimore, MD Buffalo, NY Boston, MA Cincinnati, OH Indianapolis, IN Jacksonville, FL Jersey City, NJ Kansas City, KS Las Vegas, NV Lexington, KY Los Angeles,
Posted by cpendle | 3 Comments
Wednesday, December 07, 2005 9:41 PM

Windows Live Local is NOW LIVE!

http://local.live.com Here are some of the features: Bird's Eye Images Driving Directions Custom Pushpins New Mouse Features Scratch Pad Updates Customer Page for Driving Directions
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:51 PM

Programming MapPoint with .Net

Chandu has finally finished and published his book on MapPoint. It covers all of our products including MSN Virtual Earth! It's published by O'reilly and can be found on MP2KMag.com . Here is a list of chapters: 1. Hello, MapPoint! Part I. MapPoint 2004
Posted by cpendle | 1 Comments
Tuesday, December 06, 2005 10:09 PM

Integrating MSN Virtual Earth and MapPoint Web Service

I've written a few applications using MapPoint's Web Service (MWS) and MSN Virtual Earth (VE), so I figured it might be helpful if I wrote a how to (C#). The flow of the data is fairly simple: User makes a request from a web page (default.aspx) The information
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005 6:41 PM

Installing MWS SDK in Visual Studio 2005

The MWS 4.0 SDK doesn't appear in the VS 2005 table of contents since the SDK was written for VS 2003. Here's how to fix it: Open the VS2005 Help system, and go to the following topic: ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/dv_vscccommon/local/CollectionManager.htm At
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005 6:33 PM

MapPoint 2006 - New Features

I just got the inside scoop on MapPoint 2006 new features: New Advanced GPS Features - The new GPS task pane takes information about your current location as determined from your connected, compatible GPS device and displays your current location and
Posted by cpendle | 17 Comments
Tuesday, December 06, 2005 6:20 AM

Streets & Trips 2006 On Shelves and Flying Off Quickly

Streets and Trips 2006 is now available in stores and online outlets. They are selling like hotcakes too. I was just on Amazon and noticed that Streets and Trips 2006 with the GPS Locator is ranked #1 in software. The newest version not only has updated
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005 6:11 AM

VE Mashup with FBI Data

I ripped some missing persons data from the FBI.gov web site and stuck it in MWS in order to create this nifty mashup which has 3 purposes: Allow people to see the last place missing persons were seen. Perhaps you've seen one of them in your area? Allow
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