April 2006 - Posts
Zillow.com, one of the web's premier sites for residential real estate, including finding the unique Zestimate™ price for a home, has recently added bird's eye imagery from the Virtual Earth platform. Today, they are only using bird's eye in a few of
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LoopNet, the #1 commercial real estate service online, recently launched a new map search service built on Virtual Earth. The LoopNet solution utilizes Virtual Earth to provide an autorefreshing query for commercial real estate based on the VE Map Control.
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Often I find developers asking questions about what kinds of applications have been built on Virtual Earth, other than the generally mashup oriented stuff on www.ViaVirtualEarth.com . Basically, what commercial reference implementations exist. So, I am
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The folks over at Via Virtual Earth have started up a forum thread on the free-to-use, ad supported "commercial control", trying to get feedback on what you think microsoft should do different or the same as we prepare for future versions. If you have
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As you may have noticed already, as I have gotten a few comments, URLs that used to lead to MapPoint Web Service information on www.microsoft.com now redirect to a site branded as Virtual Earth . What's up? Did we change the name of the MapPoint Web Service?
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