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Wednesday, May 31, 2006 9:29 PM

MSDN Webcast: Location Solutions with Microsoft Virtual Earth (Level 200)

Steve Milroy will be presenting on how to integrate data into a Virtual Earth application. Live Webcast, Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:00:00 GMT Many applications can benefit from location capabilities, such as store locators, data analysis/business intelligence,
Posted by cpendle | 1 Comments
Saturday, May 27, 2006 12:04 AM

Bird's Eye Imagery in UK for Windows Live Local

Bollocks you Brits! You can finally stop asking when we'll have oblique imagery for UK. And hey, what better way to show you the new UK bird's eye than with a new WLL feature? Here's a collection from Steve Lombardi illustrating where we have BE coverage:
Posted by cpendle | 1 Comments
Friday, May 26, 2006 8:26 PM

Updated Bird's Eye Imagery Coverage

The following is a list of our Bird's Eye imagery coverage which is inclusive of the Windows Live Local / Virtual Earth V3 release: County, State - Square Miles Imaged Elmore, AL - 124.58 Etowah, AL - 235.18 Benton, AR - 277.26 Washington, AR - 149.41
Posted by cpendle | 4 Comments
Friday, May 26, 2006 8:15 PM

Virtual Earth Plugin for Outlook

http://outlook.local.live.com/minisites/local/outlook/default.aspx Map and get driving directions to and from appointments, get timing information, find places near where you are or where you're going - all within the Outlook client.
Posted by cpendle | 2 Comments
Friday, May 26, 2006 6:34 PM

Windows Live Local Version 3 Launches

Here's the low down from Alex Daley (VE Product Manager): Tonight, we launched the new version of Windows Live Local, introducing features like user collections and integration with Windows Live Favorites, real-time traffic in 35 US metros, expansion
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Friday, May 26, 2006 6:23 PM

Interactive SDK for Virtual Earth Version 3

Forget the text based SDKs, this SDK is interactive. Whatever it is you're looking at you can quickly switch over to see the source code, copy it to your notepad and paste it into your application. Sick: http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/sdk/ .
Posted by cpendle | 0 Comments
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 7:47 PM

Proximity Searching by Drive Distance (and Drive Time) in MWS

I’ve discovered a way to easily (and cheaply) improve store locator relevancy by using a driving distance calculation to determine the closest locations to a user instead of as the crow flies. “As the crow flies?” you ask. The FindNearby() method in MapPoint
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006 4:44 PM

Map Cruncher Released

Map Cruncher is a secret little project that Microsoft Research has been working with the Virtual Earth team. The basic idea is that you can take any map in PDF format and overlay onto a Virtual Earth map. The benefit being that you can have your own
Posted by cpendle | 3 Comments
Tuesday, May 09, 2006 4:48 AM

Customer Service Release - May 15, 2006

We're rolling out some updates for MapPoint Web Service on May 15 that you'll need to be aware of. The next CSR will consist of the following features: New geocoding engine for the Find() API, specifically FindAddress(). Our geocoding has been spotty
Posted by cpendle | 2 Comments
Friday, May 05, 2006 1:26 AM

Virtual Earth and the Beautiful People

We put together a new mashup feautring some hot celebreties and Virtual Earth. You can see the site @ http:// www.celebfavorites.com (or http://celeb.local.live.com for those of you who like to type). If you've ever flown on American Airlines it's very
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