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July 2008 - Posts

Don't Like Microsoft Virtual Earth Imagery? Then, "Patch" It.
There are certain areas of the world where Virtual Earth's imagery is, well, low resolution. Let's face it, the world is a huge place and Virtual Earth just having had it's 3rd birthday is only in the initial phases of rolling out imagery and photography Read More...
Posted: Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:07 AM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Microsoft Virtual Earth Deprecation Reminder
Just another friendly reminder that we're going to deprecate a couple older version of Virtual Earth - specifically, v3 and v4 are going down August 31, 2008 September 22, 2008. Don't say I didn't tell you so, because I've warned you a couple times now. Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 7:41 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Eye on Earth Water Watch (and Virtual Earth)
The European Environment Agency and Microsoft have teamed up to launch a new campaign to monitor the quality of bath water across Europe - Eye on Earth Water Watch . OMG - what is going on in Europe that it is necessary to monitor this?? Forget it. I Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:03 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 Desktop Now Features Microsoft Virtual Earth
Today, we're announcing a closer and much deeper relationship with ESRI by integrating Virtual Earth into their ArcGIS Desktop product. As a part of the version 9.3 release, Virtual Earth will natively be a premium content layer so you can simply select Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:39 AM by Chris Pendleton | 2 Comments
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Overcoming Pushpin Limitations in MapPoint 2009
For as long as I've worked at Microsoft I've seen this issue with a 10,000 pushpin limit in MapPoint 2002, 2004, 2006 and, yes, it still exists in 2009 . The issue is this: if you try to import more than 10,000 addresses into MapPoint you'll get the error, Read More...
Posted: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:24 PM by Chris Pendleton | 2 Comments
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Announcing the Microsoft Virtual Earth ASP .Net Server Control
Don't like JavaScript? You want your managed code with the new wave of AJAX maps? Well, the long awaited Virtual Earth ASP .Net Server Control is now available for download as a part of the Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio . Here are some Read More...
Posted: Monday, July 28, 2008 10:02 AM by Chris Pendleton | 8 Comments
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Tabbed EROs in Microsoft Virtual Earth
The mysterious Virtual Earth ERO (aka enhanced roll overs). Coded with just a little JavaScript and a lot of Cascading Style Sheets, there is so much to learn and understand about those little buggers and not much of it is documented. Well, Geoff Innis Read More...
Posted: Sunday, July 27, 2008 8:24 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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ESRI International User Conference 2008
Awwwwe yeah, I'm coming home San Diego! I love a free trip home. Microsoft Virtual Earth will have a significant presence at the ESRI International User Conference in San Diego August 4 - 8, 2008. We've had some strategic announcements with ESRI this Read More...
Posted: Saturday, July 26, 2008 12:08 AM by Chris Pendleton | 4 Comments
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trueSpace & Virtual Earth Newbie Troubleshooting
It's been a day since I announced trueSpace for Virtual Earth Development and I figured I'd post a few hiccups I had to overcome while developing my ever-so-cool Random Cubes . This won't be the end all support FAQs with trueSpace (you should go to their Read More...
Posted: Thursday, July 24, 2008 6:02 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Announcing trueSpace for Virtual Earth 3D Development
Today is a big day. BIG DAY. As you'll recall, several months ago we acquired Caligari because of their advanced 3D toolset - trueSpace (among other assets). I've always felt sketchy about other 3D freeware, so starting today trueSpace 7.6 is now available Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 3:29 PM by Chris Pendleton | 31 Comments
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Virtual Earth Imagery Release - July 2008
14.3 TB of new imagery for Microsoft Virtual Earth. Save money on gas....use Live Search Maps powered by Virtual Earth . Ortho United States (UltraCam, Microsoft Proprietary) Elizabeth, NJ West Allis, WI    Paterson, NJ Pasadena, TX Austria Read More...
Posted: Monday, July 21, 2008 11:50 PM by Chris Pendleton | 9 Comments
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SQL Server 2008 + Virtual Earth = Simple GIS
Marc Schweigert is trying to replace me as the Virtual Earth Technical Evangelist. I kid, I kid! He has bigger fish to fry, but his passion for geospatial solutions is impressive to say the least. He's just put out ANOTHER TWO how-to videos about Microsoft Read More...
Posted: Friday, July 18, 2008 4:36 PM by Chris Pendleton | 2 Comments
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Introduction to Spatial Coordinate Systems
Isaac Kunen from the SQL Server team published an outstanding MSDN article entitled, " Introduction to Spatial Coordinate Systems: Flat Maps for a Round Planet ." This is a great article for those of you who are just getting started in GIS, Read More...
Posted: Friday, July 18, 2008 1:42 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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WorldMaps and Microsoft Virtual Earth
Perhaps you've noticed that I've added a little (non-Virtual Earth) map to my blog. Well, as the story goes...I'm always crawling the web for maps. Obviously, I have some kind of passion (read as obsession) with online mapping. So, I come across this Read More...
Posted: Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:50 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Limiting Microsoft Virtual Earth Tile Downloads to the Client
There are a couple ways to improve performance in when using Microsoft Virtual Earth. One is to limit the number of tiles requested to the client from the control, but when do you want to do this? If you're considering limiting the number of tiles downloaded Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 7:54 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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BBC Sport's Olympic Map
The World Olympics kick off August 6 in Beijing, China with a football match. Inline with CCTV's interactive Microsoft Virtual Earth map-based application for Euro 2008 , today, The BBC News has published their BBC Sport's Olympic Map which uses Microsoft Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:01 AM by Chris Pendleton | 5 Comments
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Adding Mapping Capabilities to your Applications with Microsoft Virtual Earth and ASP.NET AJAX (Video)
Marc Schweigert , is at it again. Check out his 2 latest videos showing you how to add Virtual Earth to your ASP .Net JAX applications . The video is a code walkthrough showing first, an overview of Microsoft Virtual Earth's JavaScript model, next integration Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:31 AM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Enable Virtual Earth Inertia
Inertia is that cool spinning of the globe effect in Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. Well, it's actually turned OFF by default so you wouldn't necessarily know that inertia is available in Virtual Earth but it is. Go figure. Here's how to enable it: Ensure Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:54 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2008
Virtual Earth will be making a cameo at the Inman Real Estate Connect Conference in San Francisco next week. We'll have a booth so feel free to stop by to talk shop with any of the Virtual Earth specialists. Also, we have 3 sessions for you to stop by Read More...
Posted: Monday, July 14, 2008 5:03 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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MapPoint 2009 / Streets & Trips 2009
It's official! We're releasing an update to the desktop products MapPoint 2009 (Desktop Business Intelligence Mapping and Analysis Tool) and Streets & Trips 2009 (Desktop Consumer Trip Planning). Contrary to the release of MapPoint 2006, there are Read More...
Posted: Monday, July 14, 2008 11:23 AM by Chris Pendleton | 11 Comments
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Weather Central and Virtual Earth on the iPhone
Tomorrow, Weather Central is launching their new MyWeather application for the iPhone and it is pretty darn slick. Okay, sick! The application will provide you with weather updates in tabular format ( iPhone tabular format is like candy), but more importantly Read More...
Posted: Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:14 AM by Chris Pendleton | 2 Comments
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Prime Card Map
The Prime Card Map mashup has been around a while, but it needs some love because if you have a Prime Card and have searched with their site....well, you get my drift. I thought it was just for Microsoft employees and families and people who know Microsoft Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 5:37 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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ESRI ArcGIS JavaScript Extension for Virtual Earth
ESRI just publicly released their a new version of their ArcGIS JavaScript Extension...using Virtual Earth . Now, you can leverage the powerful analytics and computational GIS models in ESRI ArcGIS Server and visualize this information on Microsoft Virtual Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 5:03 PM by Chris Pendleton | 3 Comments
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Change Virtual Earth Background Color
I recently got pinged about how to change the background color of the DIV element for a Virtual Earth map. Virtual Earth's CSS elements aren't documented (at least not officially), so perhaps this helps those who need/want this changed. So, the typical Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 3:28 PM by Chris Pendleton | 4 Comments
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Virtual Earth Application Upgrade Testing with Fiddler
With the imminent deprecation of Virtual Earth Versions 3, 4 and 5 (August 31, 2008) I thought it timely to point out Fiddler's useful capability for testing your applications' upgrade path to Version 6.1 (the current version). Oh, and, what a great way Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 2:05 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Entergy
Now powering parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas Entergy has gone live with their Virtual Earth "powered" mapping application. Entergy has integrated Virtual Earth into several applications including their Storm Center and Outage Read More...
Posted: Monday, July 07, 2008 3:45 PM by Chris Pendleton | 2 Comments
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Mapping Balloon Travel Patterns
Richard Jones at Binary Refinery pinged me about this fun thing to do / scientific experiment with balloons and maps - The Racing Balloon . On July 5, Richard and friends launched 275 balloons in an effort to raise money for Waterbeach Community Primary Read More...
Posted: Monday, July 07, 2008 1:21 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Live Search Maps Improves Internationally
Another big day for Virtual Earth in the portal space. Granted, it's our own search portals but it's great to see the platform getting more use and exposure worldwide. Live Search Maps China has expanded it's offering (just in time for the Olympics). Read More...
Posted: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:14 AM by Chris Pendleton | 5 Comments
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Ask Maps Now Using Virtual Earth
Ask.com has migrated off of their mapping platform and onto Microsoft's Virtual Earth platform. If you navigate to maps.ask.com you will now see Virtual Earth (or MapPoint Web Service for those who don't have supported browsers or JavaScript is disabled). Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 6:30 PM by Chris Pendleton | 4 Comments
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