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Tuesday, January 31, 2006 5:56 AM

MapPoint Gets a New Name

The Microsoft MapPoint business unit has officially changed it's name to the Microsoft Virtual Earth Business Unit. We'll maintain the MapPoint branding for our products, but moving forward our online platform will be called Virtual Earth, as well as,
Posted by cpendle | 0 Comments
Tuesday, January 31, 2006 5:32 AM

Unpublished Bird's Eye Imagery

I received some great feedback from some blogreaders and thought I'd open a post on unpublished Bird's Eye Imagery. I can't say what's coming (pressure from pressing thumb) but I can say the following states: Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas,
Posted by cpendle | 5 Comments
Monday, January 30, 2006 9:40 PM

Q&A - Problems with Importing From Excel

User: We are using MapPoint to show servcie provider territories. In some states, we have more than 8 service providers, so when we import the state data, only the first 8 service providers are showing up. Is there a way to change this vs having to go
Posted by cpendle | 3 Comments
Sunday, January 29, 2006 5:35 AM

New Bird's Eye Imagery

Virtual Earth has some new bird's eye imagery . . . Detroit, Michigan. Specifically, around Ford Field. Can you guess why? http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=42.339123~-83.046683&style=o&lvl=2&scene=3778901
Posted by cpendle | 2 Comments
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 6:10 PM

MWS 4.1 SDK Release

The new SDK for MapPoint Web Service 4.1 is available for download and online browsing. Bonus - it works with Visual Studio 2005 (as well as supporting older versions). You can download the new SDK here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/mappoint/ .
Posted by cpendle | 0 Comments
Monday, January 23, 2006 10:04 PM

MWS 4.1 is now Live!

If you're running MWS at all, you've been automatically updated. You've gotta love a non-breaking change. If you missed my early post on what's included, check them out here .
Posted by cpendle | 1 Comments
Wednesday, January 18, 2006 6:47 PM

MapPoint B2G

For those of you MapPoint users who work in or with government agencies, Microsoft now has a page dedicated to the space complete with demos, sale items, and case studies. Check it out: http://www.microsoft.com/mappoint/industries/government/gov_challenges.mspx
Posted by cpendle | 1 Comments
Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:06 AM

L'information des Technologies de MapPoint dans Europe

Finally some MapPoint representation for MapPoint in EMEA. What the heck is EMEA? Europe, Middle East and Asia. Arnaud Gstach has started a MapPoint blog to keep our fans across the pond abreast of "mappennings" - I just made that word up. Let's see if
Posted by cpendle | 2 Comments
Tuesday, January 17, 2006 11:58 PM

Where 2.0 2006

Conference details have been announced for the Where 2.0 conference which will be in San Jose this year: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where2006/ . I'll be there. Will you?
Posted by cpendle | 1 Comments
Tuesday, January 17, 2006 7:05 PM

Killing MSN Maps and Directions

The time has come to say good-bye to MSN Maps and Directions and say hello to Windows Live Local. The product team has decided that in order for everyone to appreciate Windows Live Local, users need to stop using MSN Maps and Directions and be force fed
Posted by cpendle | 43 Comments
Friday, January 13, 2006 7:03 PM

Get Your Apps off of VE Beta 1!

The Windows Live Local product team is planning on retiring the Virtual Earth Beta 1 release on February 12, 2006. That means any applications you've built that haven't been moved over to Beta 2 ( see this blog entry ) need to get moved before then or
Posted by cpendle | 0 Comments
Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:40 PM

MSN Local Search Beta Using VE

We all know how cool Virtual Earth is and the integration MSN Local Search has made it more than just a mapping site - it's Windows Live Local for crying out loud! But, this effort was aided from the MSN Local Search team who was using MapPoint Web Service
Posted by cpendle | 2 Comments
Thursday, January 12, 2006 1:19 AM

MWS 4.1 Release

Ok, it's official. We're doing an MWS release, it's called 4.1 and it's coming in January 2006. Here are the customer ready details of the release: Expanded Map Coverage MapPoint Web Service 4.1 includes new data sources that bring updated worldwide road
Posted by cpendle | 6 Comments
Thursday, January 12, 2006 1:17 AM

MapPoint 2004 API Documentation

I'm so sick of scouring through MSDN to find this and I just can't seem to bookmark it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/library/en-us/MapPoint2006/ALLGettingStarted.asp
Posted by cpendle | 1 Comments
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 8:03 PM

Virtual Earth - With a new ui?

This site is pretty sick. They took the VE map control and search results and have created their own interface into mapping business listings: http://atlas.freshlogicstudios.com/ . Correction: I originally posted that this site was using MSN Local Search
Posted by cpendle | 1 Comments
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 1:03 AM

Accessing Your MWS Custom Icons

I've fielded a few concerns around how to access your custom icons in MWS. The documentation around this is sparse, so I thought I'd blog it. The icons you upload into the Customer Service Site / Microsoft Extranet are stored in your account's root directory.
Posted by cpendle | 0 Comments
 
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