Announcing: Virtual Earth 6.2 and Virtual Earth Web Services 1.0

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Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:50:26 GMT

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re: Announcing: Virtual Earth 6.2 and Virtual Earth Web Services 1.0

Robert — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:43:33 GMT

Live Maps looks still very "boring" and "overloaded" - have a look at Google Maps: The colors are much friendlier and "sharper" (e.g. coast). If you zoom to germany and compare Live Maps and Google Maps then you will see that Google Maps is not as overloaded as Live Maps.

The most important feature in this release is the localized tiles - but I really hope that in the next version the layout of the map will be "friendlier" and "fresher" - maybe than I implement Live Maps in my applications.

re: Announcing: Virtual Earth 6.2 and Virtual Earth Web Services 1.0

mjbrown — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:23:47 GMT

@Robert, the applications you build off of live maps can look as good as you want to make them. Live Maps is just our consumer implementation of Virtual Earth. Take a look at our mashup gallery out on http://dev.live.com/virtualearth to see what others are building with Virtual Earth. They aren't boring looking at all.

regards,

mark

re: Announcing: Virtual Earth 6.2 and Virtual Earth Web Services 1.0

Robert — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:57:28 GMT

Hi Mark,

I know that I could map my own images over the Virtual Earth - but the standard tiles (which are used bye the most applications I found on the mashup gallery) aren´t very "sexy" - 99% of the developer doesn´t have access to such map tiles and so on, that´s why the standard tiles are the only choice.

I really respect your work and the work of the whole Virtual Earth Team, but in the company that I work for, Virtual Earth is never a choice - compare the colors of goolge maps and virtual earth or (in germany) the arial images.

I really just want to give you feedback - no Microsoft bashing ;)

Virtual Earth version 6.2 Release

Nuno Filipe Godinho — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:09:25 GMT

    There’s already online the new 6.2 release of the Virtual Earth that has some awesome

Virtual Earth version 6.2 Release

Nuno Filipe Godinho — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:09:55 GMT

    There’s already online the new 6.2 release of the Virtual Earth that has some awesome

Virtual Earth 6.2 and Virtual Earth Web Services 1.0 Released

Geoffrey Emery — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:50:52 GMT

Virtual Earth 6.2 and Virtual Earth Web Services 1.0 Released