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Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:00 AM

Add your own 3D models to Virtual Earth

Well we've finally done it! We now have a way for you to create or import your own models and put them into Virtual Earth using truSpace which comes from Caligari who we brought into Microsoft not too long ago. Not only that but you can get truSpace for
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Saturday, July 05, 2008 6:06 PM

New Video Series, Behind the Maps – The Technology of Virtual Earth

Hey everyone so I’ve finally published the first episode of Behind the Maps out on Channel 9. This video series will take you on a journey where we will follow the path the data and imagery in Virtual Earth takes from the manufacture of the camera, to
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 8:11 AM

New Silverlight Wrapper for Virtual Earth

A couple of guys from Microsoft, Jared Bienz from US-DPE ISV Team and Adam Eversole from Microsoft Research have created a new managed wrapper around the Virtual Earth AJAX control and released it onto Code Plex . From the projects description: The Virtual
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 1:49 PM

Virtual Earth & Silverlight Together on Windows Mobile

My friend Sam Chenaur over in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Team (DPE) here at Microsoft posted a blog entry the other day about an interview he did on Channel 10 with the CEO of John L. Scott Realty . If you didn’t know. John L. Scott is an existing
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:59 AM

Virtual Earth makes golfing more enjoyable

My friend Jerry over on the Virtual Earth 3D team turned me on to a company called, Terra Imaging who makes a product called, 3D Golf Course . They just finished doing the Torrey Pines course in La Jolla, CA where Tiger just won his 14th major championship.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:20 PM

Cool Silverlight Deep Zoom – Virtual Earth Demo

Our friends from Australia, Soul Solutions, headed up by two of our most creative Virtual Earth MVP’s have built a totally cool Virtual Earth application using Silverlight complete with extensive blog entry and extending the MultiScaleTileSource class
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Saturday, May 31, 2008 2:25 PM

State & Local Governments Getting Jiggy with Virtual Earth

State and Local Governments love mapping stuff. They also create really cool looking websites that their citizens find really useful. Here's a list of some State and Local Governments that are using Virtual Earth and what they are doing with it. To quote
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Friday, May 23, 2008 1:52 PM

CNET article on Google Capturing 3D Data

My friends over on the Virtual Earth 3D Team today wrote a blog entry about a recent article by Stephen Shankland about a Google experiment to capture 3D data with lasers attached to the heads of sharks the Street View cameras used to capture their street
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 3:18 PM

Virtual Earth Solves Crimes on CSI: NY

Wow, Virtual Earth sure is getting a lot of exposure on TV lately. There are a number of news stations that use it for their news stories and for their weather reports. Now CBS is on the map with their latest episode of CSI: NY. In this latest episode
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 3:20 PM

Evacuation Planning using Virtual Earth

Microsoft holds an event every year called Location Summit. It's a two day event where we invite scientists and others who are deep into the mapping technologies to come and share in the research they are doing. I got looped into this thing to cover for
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:55 PM

TV Stations using Virtual Earth

One of the uses of Virtual Earth that really surprised me at first was using Virtual Earth in the Media and Entertainment industry. When I was at NAB a month ago I saw quite a few companies actively showing their wares with Virtual Earth. A few of these
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:22 AM

Virtual Earth can prevent Speeding Tickets....

Well not really, at least not as an OOBE, but when you get smart people figuring out cool ways of using Virtual Earth it CAN! Saw an article by Doug Newcomb on Wired.com today about a site called, njection.com created by Shannon Atkinson who created an
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