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  • Chris Pendleton
    Virtual Earth Tech Evangelist
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January 2008 - Posts

Google Suggests Using Microsoft MapCruncher
Being the Microsoft Virtual Earth Platform Evangelist, I'm all about getting the word out about Microsoft mapping products. There is a greater good in what I do, however and that is to get people using mapping. Something like 82% of all data in the world Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:32 PM by Chris Pendleton | 3 Comments
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New Imagery, January 2008
27+ TB of imagery have just been added to Virtual Earth. 3D Cities USA Redding, CA Colorado Springs, CO Fort Collins, CO Des Moines, IA Sioux City, IA Waterloo, IA Boise City, ID Decatur, IL Ann Arbor, MI Dearborn, MI Flint, MI Kalamazoo, MI Lansing, Read More...
Posted: Saturday, January 26, 2008 3:23 PM by Chris Pendleton | 4 Comments
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Come See Me At MIX 2008
Vegas baby, Vegas! March 5-7. 2008 - MIX 2008 - be there or be square. I'll be presenting a level 200 how to session called " Developing Applications with Microsoft Virtual Earth ." I'll talk features, I'll talk code, I'll talk business examples and I'll Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:55 AM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Yellow Pages Group (Canada)
The Yellow Pages Group published a press release about their launch with Virtual Earth. Read below. I took a screen shot of Tim Horton's locations in British Columbia - I've heard it's the best donut in Canada, so maybe someone can send me some. (Chris Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:41 AM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Live Search Racing Team
Virtual Earth is a part of the Live Local Search team which is a part of the Live Search team which is a part of Windows Live which is a part of Microsoft. This helps you understand the brand a bit more and helps me justify posting some exciting news Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:53 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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KSPR - Springfield, MO
The list of broadcasters using Virtual Earth continues to grow. KSPR in Springfield, MO is now leveraging Virtual Earth to illustrate their weather news cast. Throughout this broadcast they actually use our aerial imagery (ortho) and 3D (seen below). Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:54 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Cleveland Rocks!
O-HIO! This is pretty awesome. The State of Ohio's Department of Transportation has rolled out a site for all you Buckeyes (and those of you living in the Ohio who didn't go to The Ohio State University). Navigate to BuckeyeTraffic.org and you'll see Read More...
Posted: Monday, January 21, 2008 5:30 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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VE and the BBC
The British Broadcast Corporation has agreed to use Virtual Earth. The plane crash at Heathrow was detailed in this article on the BBC News web site. The article included many illustrations about the accident and the plane itself, but also included a Read More...
Posted: Monday, January 21, 2008 4:48 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Visualizing Broadcast Areas in Virtual Earth
Our Microsoft Certified Partners SpatialPoint are at it again. They've published a new visualization tool for viewing radio broadcast signal coverage areas by station at FollowTheGame.com . The theme for the application is football, so you can stay tuned Read More...
Posted: Monday, January 21, 2008 4:30 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Live Search Maps China Tops Google and Baidu
I can't read this article , but some of my cohort here in Redmond can. The folks at ZOL (CNET) have rated Live Search Maps China higher than both Google Maps China and Baidu Maps. ZOL specified that Live Search Maps China was better because of the "superior Read More...
Posted: Monday, January 21, 2008 3:57 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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3DVia Survey
For those of you who have used the 3DVia toolset for creating 3D models and injecting them into Live Search Maps, the folks at Dassault Systems are looking for your feedback. I received a link to the survey which seems to have some kind of identifier, Read More...
Posted: Monday, January 21, 2008 3:37 PM by Chris Pendleton | 3 Comments
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Chargers Take Down Patriots!
Heck yes I'm backing my home team! I met some girl in a bar last year. I don't know her name, but it was the weekend before the Chargers and Patriots played in the Divisional round of the AFC playoffs. The Chargers were 14-2 and the Patriots were limping Read More...
Posted: Friday, January 18, 2008 10:43 PM by Chris Pendleton | 2 Comments
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Weather Central
Jerry Skaw from The Virtual Earth Public Sector Marketing Team posted a blog entry highlighting how some Local News Stations are Leveraging Virtual Earth . Roger Mall and I work closely on media outlets for Virtual Earth, so what you see in the Seattle Read More...
Posted: Friday, January 18, 2008 9:07 PM by Chris Pendleton | 2 Comments
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Virtual Earth Innovation at Harley-Davidson
Hopefully, by now you are all aware of the Great Roads application which Harley-Davidson rolled out in late 2006. It was a sleek interface with brand retention and allowed us to demonstrate some strong evidence of how powerful VE integration can be in Read More...
Posted: Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:25 PM by Chris Pendleton | 3 Comments
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