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    Virtual Earth Tech Evangelist
    Microsoft® Corporation
    Redmond, Wa


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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:

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  • Click on the "3D settings" button
  • Click on the "Preferences" tab
  • Check the box (the only box) for "Continue Earth motion after dragging."

And that takes care of that. Now you will have the fluid motion of flying over the Earth and spinning the globe with complete disregard for senseless behavior.

 

 

 

 

CP

Posted: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:54 PM by Chris Pendleton

Comments

AngelaE8654 said:

Thank you very much for these clear directions on how to turn it back on.  :)

# July 15, 2008 8:16 PM

Vision said:

I love virtual earth thanks for the information !

# October 10, 2008 3:43 PM

silvermario said:

Wow, this Virtual Earth Inertia globe feature is soooo cool =]  Thanks a lot for this clue :)

# October 13, 2008 10:49 PM

Jessicas said:

This feature is very useful and cool!!

# November 21, 2008 11:48 PM

mehaul said:

This is a lot of fun spinning the globe.Thanks for this info

# January 8, 2009 3:40 PM

diabetes said:

This is really cool feature... didn't know it was there... thanks for the pointer!

# May 2, 2009 10:54 AM

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Awesome, thanks for the link to the proxy issue. That solved my problem.

# May 23, 2009 10:56 AM

PolarBears said:

I never know about this! Thanks for pointing it out, what else is there I don't know?

# May 28, 2009 5:09 AM

bad credit loans said:

Microsoft has a ton of cool gadgets/features just like Google does. I can't remember the URL to the Microsoft earth telescope but it's awesome.

# May 31, 2009 7:10 PM
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