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U-Haul
U-Haul just made the move from MapQuest to Virtual Earth. Actually, U-Haul has been a long-standing MapPoint Web Service customer for several applications and they've decided to move over their Location Finder over to Virtual Earth - sweet. Hey, where Read More...
Posted: Friday, October 03, 2008 11:58 PM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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Texas Loves Virtual Earth
And, Virtual Earth loves Texas! Check out the Texas Department of Transportation web sites that are leveraging Microsoft Virtual Earth to better visualize their traffic flow and incident information. Check out these cities with their respective information Read More...
Posted: Sunday, September 21, 2008 10:47 PM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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Mapvertising on Virtual Earth with Lat49
I recently wrote a post discussing the advertising opportunities on Live Search Maps . Well, it turns out there's a player in town ready to take up the opportunity to provide map-based advertising (aka mapvertising) and make YOU some money for your mapping Read More...
Posted: Monday, September 15, 2008 1:16 PM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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Virtual Sweden
Virtual Sweden (not related to Virtual Earth) has launched Microsoft Virtual Earth into their web site highlighting different points of interest around the Nordic country. The map interface is pretty straightforward with orange pins representing points Read More...
Posted: Friday, September 12, 2008 8:36 AM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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IS Consulting Releases MapDotNet UX Beta
IS Consulting just released the Beta of their MapDotNet UX product and the folks in the GIS world had better take notice. It's funny over the years how everyone thinks they've got the next "Arc-XXX killer," yet ESRI continues to persevere - Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:24 PM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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Nordstrom
Nordstrom just rolled out their new retail store locator using Microsoft Virtual Earth . You can search by any of their 3 brands (Nordstrom, Nordstrom Rack, or Spa Nordstrom - apparently Façionable is no more). Select a state from the pull down; Read More...
Posted: Sunday, September 07, 2008 4:39 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Stream Video and Location Together with GPS-Enabled Mobile Video
Inca Mobile is rolling out some interesting technology to simultaneously stream video from a mobile phone while leveraging the onboard GPS to track position of where a user is and is moving to and from. The software, called Live Media GPS , currently Read More...
Posted: Friday, September 05, 2008 12:10 PM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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Add Listings to Live Search Maps via The New Live Search Local Listings Center
We've just released the ability to add your listings to Live Search Maps via the Live Search Local Listings Center (US only). Actually, the service had been in place for a while, but not many people knew about it and functionality was, well, rudimentary. Read More...
Posted: Friday, September 05, 2008 12:12 AM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Texas Natural Resources Information System Launches Emergency Resource Site
TNRIS just launched their new Emergency Resources web site just in time for Gustav to touchdown over Texas. The site overlays Doppler weather with a Virtual Earth map for storm tracking. You can also get down to a specific city, by geocoding places in Read More...
Posted: Friday, August 29, 2008 1:56 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Virtual Earth Applications on Facebook
I just joined Facebook. This is after a long, nightmarish experience of "friends" on MySpace forced me to delete my account (3 times) and depart from social networking sites altogether; however, I'm healed and recovered and now move forward Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 8:23 AM by Chris Pendleton | 3 Comments
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(Silverlight + Virtual Earth) * (Traffic + Weather) = Traffic Eye
A little linear algebra for you Canadians, eh? No less than 24 hours after I post " A Few Virtual Earth / Silverlight Demo Applications " I get an email from our Canadian Virtual Earth Sales Solution Specialist, Mike Pastushak, that The Weather Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 8:45 PM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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Sealy
Sealy just went live with their new distributor locator leveraging Microsoft Virtual Earth . Your basic, easy to use, easy to find our mattress locator. Enter a postal code on the home page to get there or go to the Sealy Distributor Locator page and Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:00 AM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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MetroPCS
MetroPCS has just gone live with their new store locator featuring Microsoft Virtual Earth . Your basic store locator with a few attributions in which you can filter your search on. Enter any address, postal code or point of interest (ie. Statue of Liberty) Read More...
Posted: Sunday, August 10, 2008 7:35 PM by Chris Pendleton | 2 Comments
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TeamZoneSports
TeamZoneSports has just gone live with Microsoft Virtual Earth integrated into their community web site that "makes the lives of league directors, coaches, players and parents easier." So, this site is pretty awesome (regardless of the Virtual Read More...
Posted: Saturday, August 02, 2008 7:43 AM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Petco
Petco has moved their store locator to Microsoft Virtual Earth . Petco has over 850 stores in the United States which you can search through using a city/state combo or a postal code. Additionally, Petco offers services at some of their stores, but not Read More...
Posted: Friday, August 01, 2008 11:14 AM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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