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June 2008 - Posts

The Virtual Earth Map Control is HUGE! Or, is it?
I was at a customer location recently and they asked me, "Why is your control so big? My performance is being hurt by having to reload this huge map control every time I load my page." Hmm, time to investigate.... I opened up Firebug in Firefox Read More...
Posted: Monday, June 30, 2008 3:47 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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ESRI Shapefile Layers on a Virtual Earth Map
Juan DoNeblo has the skinny on rendering your ESRI .shp files on Virtual Earth . This is a fantastic how-to that was posted back in April around the time of the ESRI Developers Summit . Microsoft has a strong partnership with ESRI as they are one of the Read More...
Posted: Friday, June 27, 2008 12:19 PM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Environment Group
"Innovating to Improve the Planet." That's the mantra of the Microsoft Environment Group . Did you know about them? Their is sole focus is the environment and what we can do to improve it. In fact, their mission statement is posted on the main Read More...
Posted: Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:23 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Virtual Earth and Live Search Maps Vintage Educational Videos
Catherine Heller and I did these videos last year for Channel 10 and for some reason I never found out they were published...until today. They're still valid (for the most part) though much has changed with the Live UI. It can provide you with some Virtual Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:29 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Virtual Earth and WPF (Code Samples)
Marc Schweigert wrote a great blog post and provided some code samples for an application he wrote combining Virtual Earth and WPF . I absolutely had to post a traceback to his blog to get folks steered over to get the samples, because this is money. Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:43 AM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
Virtual Earth Imagery Release - June, 2008
20TB of new imagery....laughable compared to the 69TB+ from May's Virtual Earth Imagery Release ; then again, when's the last time you transferred 20TB of data? :) Here's the list for June: Orthos (Microsoft UltraCam) Toledo, OH Iowa City, IA Independence, Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:42 AM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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3D Models with Virtual Earth-3DVia
Perhaps you know that Virtual Earth-3DVia by Dassault Systems is our software for creating models in Virtual Earth 3D ; perhaps you didn't. I haven't seen many models built out, but what I've seen have been okay - just okay. If you have some sweet models Read More...
Posted: Monday, June 23, 2008 5:24 PM by Chris Pendleton | 2 Comments
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Publish Your Aerial Photography to Virtual Earth
We're just starting a new program called "GoVE" which enables municipalities, state and local governments, aerial photographers, carrier pigeons, whoever, to share your imagery with Microsoft for publishing onto Virtual Earth the platform that Read More...
Posted: Monday, June 23, 2008 2:42 PM by Chris Pendleton | 6 Comments
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MapPoint Web Service 4.7 SDK Released
Friday we released an updated version of the MapPoint Web Service SDK 4.7 . There's nothing new in terms of functionality for the SOAP XML APIs, but we did update the docs to include a new version of the road network coverage. So, now you get a better Read More...
Posted: Monday, June 23, 2008 1:32 PM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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UK Celebrity Spotter
The MSN Entertainment Team in The UK rolled their Celebrity Spotter out a bit ago, but has been getting good traffic, they continue to keep the feed of information updated and it has Virtual Earth as the interface for finding data. The concept is about Read More...
Posted: Monday, June 23, 2008 2:08 AM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
Darden Restaurants
It's Friday and a rare sunny, beautiful day in Redmond. I'm feeling good and will be hitting the outdoors as soon as possible - we tend to cut our days short when the sun comes out. Perhaps this is why response times from me are shorter in the summer. Read More...
Posted: Friday, June 20, 2008 12:36 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Photo Geotagging on Surface with Virtual Earth
Devin Coldewey has a great write-up on some new things the Surface team rolled out including their new SDK. But, more relevantly, a photo geotagging application for Surface using Virtual Earth . Per Coldewey, " Next we saw probably one of the coolest Read More...
Posted: Thursday, June 19, 2008 2:46 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
Virtual Earth Staging Environment
We've officially launched our staging environment which allow you to access Virtual Earth features without incurring transaction costs for hitting production. Plus, we can stage new features allowing you to new stuff and regression test for backwards Read More...
Posted: Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:37 PM by Chris Pendleton | 2 Comments
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Lots of Virtual Earth and Silverlight Development Outside of Microsoft
I'm seeing lots of Virtual Earth integration in Silverlight light. And, I have to say I LOVE IT. Today is no exception. IDV Solutions just launched their Silverlight Map Viewer which is their new interface for their Visual Fusion Server product. This Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:00 PM by Chris Pendleton | 17 Comments
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Virtual Earth and WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is an incredible new visualization technology from Microsoft and since we are "One Microsoft" with some extremely exciting user experience software coming to the forefront - see Silverlight , Seadragon (aka Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:23 PM by Chris Pendleton | 6 Comments
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MSNBC Maps Midwest Floods with Virtual Earth
MSNBC published a Virtual Earth map highlighting points along the Mississippi River (and one in Michigan) where towns are getting flooded in the Midwest United States. Each point represents a city with flood issues such as Rock Island, Il and hovering Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:50 AM by Chris Pendleton | 2 Comments
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Central Florida News 13
Tim Henderson (Virtual Earth Solution Specialist, South East US) sent me this video of a Central Florida News 13 broadcast using Virtual Earth. The video actually uses Live Search Maps and either a camera recording the screen or a scan converter to push Read More...
Posted: Monday, June 16, 2008 4:19 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
Tour de Korea - Japan 2008
Virtual Earth Blog Tags: Enterprise/Government Solutions I found the Tour de Korea - Japan 2008 Virtual Earth Mashup on the KGrand blog which actually has quite a few Virtual Earth Mashups for Japan . I wanted to call this one out because of it's timeliness Read More...
Posted: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:01 PM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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Euro 2008 on CCTV
CCTV (China Central Television) is the largest Chinese Broadcasting Company who owns the exclusive Olympics broadcasting rights for China. They just released their first version of Virtual Earth integrated with CCTV Olympics site for Euro Soccer Game Read More...
Posted: Friday, June 13, 2008 10:59 AM by Chris Pendleton | 2 Comments
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Overcoming Proxy Issues with Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D
Every now and again I get pinged by someone behind a firewall or proxy server that claims they can't install Virtual Earth 3D. I have some solutions that might overcome your problems. There WERE two problems with proxies and VE3D - (1) installing over Read More...
Posted: Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:02 PM by Chris Pendleton | 2 Comments
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Virtual Earth Auto-Upgrade Postponed
I've been continuing to keep you updated on the imminent deprecation and auto-upgrade of Virtual Earth's legacy map controls . Well, you just got an addition 2 months to get those Version 6 apps tested against Version 6.1 before we auto-upgrade. Here's Read More...
Posted: Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:00 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Virtual Earth Featured on CNN
A couple days ago, CNN was broadcasting news about the horrific weather in the Midwest. Well, it turns out they have a new option for illustrating their news stories with maps and imagery - Microsoft Virtual Earth . Check out the video below where CNN's Read More...
Posted: Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:39 AM by Chris Pendleton | 2 Comments
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Virtual Earth WAP Maps
Yesterday's demonstration of Loopt's social networking application on the iPhone with Virtual Earth maps has inspired me to write about another mobile effort that Target Corp . launched just a couple weeks ago. The Target WAP mobile store locator using Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:43 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Virtual Earth and iPhone
Who says Google gets all the love from Apple's iPhone? If you saw or read about the introduction of the new version of iPhone at The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, perhaps you caught Sam Altman, Loopt CEO, demonstrating Loopt's new application Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:46 AM by Chris Pendleton | 2 Comments
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Virtual Earth May Imagery Release - 69.2TB!
Are you kidding me? 69.2 Terabytes?? I was once asked at a show how Microsoft handles so much data when transferring it over the Internet to the data centers. New 3D models (Version 2 of the processing software). In addition to Dallas, Denver, Las Vegas Read More...
Posted: Thursday, June 05, 2008 11:15 AM by Chris Pendleton | 9 Comments
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Virtual Earth and OGC WMS
Check out the new Virtual Earth map style using topographical maps. Ha, gotcha! I should've saved this one for April 1. This is actually an Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service integration with Virtual Earth! And, just to clarify, this is not a Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 3:14 PM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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Humanitarian Information Centre for Myanmar
In the wake of devastation in Myanmar, the HIC for Myanmar has partnered with IDV Solutions to create The Humanitarian Information Centre for Myanmar's Map Center . The map-based, dashboard application is simplistically powerful allowing users to very Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:56 PM by Chris Pendleton | 2 Comments
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Driving Retail Profit with Visualization Technology
I wanted to bump up the promotion of an upcoming web cast, " Driving Retail Profit with Visualization Technology " that would be interesting to folks in the retail vertical. The idea is that mapping (ehem, Virtual Earth mapping) is becoming more prevalent Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 4:08 PM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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Realcomm Conference
Next week RealComm kicks off in San Diego and I have a presentation as a part of the Microsoft technical track called " Virtual Earth: Changing the Landscape. ". I never miss an opportunity to come home. Additionally, my boss and Worldwide Director of Read More...
Posted: Monday, June 02, 2008 2:34 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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SignPoster.com
SignPoster.com recently launched with their new map-based search service leveraging Virtual Earth as a backdrop for locating available ad space. You put in a neighborhood, a search radius and media type (poster or bus) and off you go. Don't miss the advanced Read More...
Posted: Sunday, June 01, 2008 7:29 PM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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