Virtual Earth Mobile 1.71

Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69 Available

Backstage at MED — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:54:52 GMT

Jason Fuller finally updated Virtual Earth and added a few new features including: Map Dragging using

New release of virtual earth mobile - v1.69

Jason Langridge's WebLog - MR Mobile! — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:43:42 GMT

The first post over of the year over on the Windows Mobile Team Blog shares the latest release of Virtual

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

andy — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:05:28 GMT

Why would I want to use this when I now have Windows Live Search for Mobile? It appears as though the best of VEM was combined into WLSM.

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

Charles — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:58:46 GMT

Would be nice if the program remembered it's previous settings (Smartphone version) during the install process. When I updated to the current version, the setting to keep the cache on a storage card reset to 'main memory'...

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

daniel — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:28:02 GMT

cant realy say.cos av neva downloaded it.

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

geert56 — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:01:52 GMT

Awesome free program!

Beats most (expensive) mapping software.

Moving map with pen is great improvement.

Would be nice to have simple waypoint capability.

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

Andre — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:01:14 GMT

Now VEM is stuck in my start menu! I went to Start\Settings\personal\Menus to uncheck it but it says "Unable to remove item". Anyone else getting this?

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Tim Butler — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:38:44 GMT

Thanks for the update! Looks like it works great!

Written directions has been something that I've really wanted to see come back. Looks good!

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

RJD — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:53:36 GMT

Is there a way to make the GPS-ish thing in my Treo 700w talk to this app? That would be totally sweet. Or do I need somwething like a TomTom?

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

Gregor — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 21:38:38 GMT

Hi!

Looks great! Sad to see it can't talk to the internal GPS-Receiver of my FSC Pocket Loox N560

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

McHale — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 04:48:56 GMT

Jason, I hope you read these.

I *WAY* prefer Virtual Earth Mobile over Windows Live Search Mobile. Until they add the function to find an address from your contacts, VEM is the only one I use. It's also faster and easier to use.

Thanks for the great work!

-Mc

Virtual Earth Mobile updated

John at myITforum.com — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:36:56 GMT

Virtual Earth Mobile has been updated to version 1.69. Dragging of maps is now available, as well as

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

John — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:42:12 GMT

Is there any way to add cut and paste functionality into the fields of this program. The main field that I see needing this is the 'Address' field for find an address. It appears that I can not paste information into that field. Very frustrating, but yet seemingly trivial to integrate into the software. I am wondering why it was not done in the first place.

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

Richard Haynes — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:56:52 GMT

I've got version 1.67 installed now. Do I have to uninstall it first, or will the new 1.69 just overwrite it?

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Me — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:01:30 GMT

Excellent version; working very well in Australia.

Unlike Windows Live Search.

Please keep this alive - it meets needs that live search does not.

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

jhony.o — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:15:45 GMT

hi! thanx for cool application. this is great one for me. its simple and usefull!

but i can't use removable strage card option. b/c its called "SD card" on my PDA(dell x50v).

i guess this will make me happy if VEM allow me to specify path for cache directory.

thanx for your attention.

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

jhony.o — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 03:08:21 GMT

PS.

This is an error message what i got when i try to use removable strage card option.

VirtualEarthMobile.exe

NullReferenceException

__Error::WinIOError+0x8a

Directory::InternalCreateDirectory+0x139

Directory::CreateDirectory+0x49

TileCache::get_StorageCardPath+0x69

TileCache::get_CachePath+0x2a

TileCache::.ctor+0x7f

TileManager::.ctor+0x34

TileManager::Create+0x11

Map::.ctor+0x65

FormPocketEarth::.ctor+0x9d

FormPocketEarth::Main+0xb

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

Will — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:47:40 GMT

Great program Jason - I've been using it for about a week now, and i just got my first crash. Maybe this stack info will be helpful:

phone: moto q (wm5-smartphone)

error:"ArgumentOutOfRangeException

ArrrayList::get_Item+0x13

NameValueCollection::GetAsOneString+0x54

NameValueCollection::Get+0x13

..."

there was more, but it froze and i couldn't scroll further. it happened when i was zoomed in pretty close and scrolling right.

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

windowsmobile — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:35:11 GMT

To John:

It _is_ possible to paste into the "Find Address" field. The Paste command is in the second softkey's Menu. (NetCF made it too difficult to enable a context-senstive (tap-and-hold) menu for the edit control.)

Of course, on Smartphone, none of the built-in apps provide any way to _put_ text onto the clipboard, so Paste won't be useful.

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

polycloud — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:38:41 GMT

VEM looks awesome! My problem is that I can't get it to accept data from my bluetooth GPS. I have a Dell Axim X50v, WM2003SE.

I have no problem connecting to the GPS using Mapopolis or other software.

Has anyone gotten the GPS tracking to work? What setup do you have?

Also, is it possible to download a lot of maps, then when I go somewhere without data service I can still use the available maps with a GPS?

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

drew — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:20:45 GMT

Very cool mapping program. I was having a heck of a time trying to get google maps (because I couldn't get java working) on my Samsung i730. Now I have no need for google maps! Thanks for a great program!

Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

Shawn Weisfeld — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:48:28 GMT

For those of you that have a Windows Mobile Device. This application is a must have, providing mapping

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

jeffrey itum — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:08:48 GMT

Hi there, i live in philippines but i cannot zoom in like the US area? why?

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mike maguire — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:38:49 GMT

VEM looks awesome! My problem is that I can't get it to accept data from my bluetooth GPS. I have a Dell Axim X50v, WM2003SE.

I have no problem connecting to the GPS using Mapopolis or other software.

Has anyone gotten the GPS tracking to work? What setup do you have?

Like 'polycloud' above, I cannot get the GPS on my Mop P550 to connect with VEM. It works fine on Navigon software?

Any developments or ideas?

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

Gabe — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:11:53 GMT

I'd really like the choice of downloading a pack of maps for a large area, so that I don't have to transfer all of them over the internet with my iPaq (I'm not always connected to the internet :/

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

alaa ahmed — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:31:28 GMT

great program but is there any chance to make it work off line

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

Mitchell — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:44:27 GMT

Just as an fyi (competitive analysis-type stuff): although Google Maps was available as a Java midlet previously, it's now available as a native Windows Mobile application now too, at:

http://www.google.com/gmm/index.html

Now, I haven't yet had a chance to install both to compare them, but it'll be interesting to see what the differences are.

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

GT — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:11:53 GMT

I tried both VRM and GMM. Seems GMM is faster. Routing in GMM is way faster than VRM (I guess it is a server issue.).

GPS works in both programs. You need to make sure you set the correct port. If I remember correctly, even VRM installs a GPS in control panel, VRM does NOT work with that. You need to specify your hardware port.

GMM displays a small green dot for GPS, but VRM just center the map. From this point of view, Windows Live Search is the best.

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

Tony Su — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:32:55 GMT

This app (and any other app which supports a GPS) needs a connectivity verifier.

Despite the previous post in this blog about a successful PPC 6700 pairing, I haven't been able to make it work.

The Bluetooth GPS is recognized and a pairing setup, an outbound COM port has been assigned but still no joy. When selecting "Current GPS position" in Livesearch, it just spins forever.

The GPS receiver works fine with a Windows Mobile PDA. I'm surprised about the COM port mapping requirement for a Windows Smartphone, it isn't a requirement when setting up a GPS app on a PDA.

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

pcase — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:35:28 GMT

I have 1.69 and a moto q I start and it asks me to select a bt device, I select my bt device and it goes back to the start menu and then the application will not start until I restart the phone..please help..

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

pcase — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:25:59 GMT

so i removed the virtual earth all together and installed the live search. REally like it alot. I connect my blue tooth( i think) but it says it cannot get the gps position? Can anyone help me I have the moto q.

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Rich — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:18:28 GMT

I was able to get WLS to work with BT GPS by setting the COM port to 4, which is the COM port that I am using as the hardware COM port in the GPS control panel. I have the software COM port set to 8, but pointing WLS to COM 8 doesn't work. On the other hand with Google Maps, I can point to COM 8 and it works fine.

ADDING ARABIC/HEBREW TO WIN CE 5.0

MAHER SUBEH — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:55:27 GMT

I AM TRYING TO ADD TO MY SMART PHONE WHICH COMES WITH WINDOW CE 5.0 THE ARABIC AND HEBREW LANGUAGE. HOWEVER, THE ONLY LANGUAGE AVAILABLE ON THE T-MOBILE DASH & WIN CE 5.0 IS ENGLISH. I WANT TO BE ABLE TO READ AND WRITE ARABIC & HEBREW.

CAN YOU PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT TO DO?

THANK YOU

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

Ivan — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:19:37 GMT

Any chance of a source code update? I am trying to demo location/mapping functionality on PocketPC/Smartphone but would like to tweak the UI according to our requirements.

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

peter — Sat, 05 May 2007 19:15:12 GMT

I love the app. that worked fine until having upgraded to 1.69 it no longer words on my Moto Q with its latest ver. of software. I'm getting the same message that others are getting.

unexpected error

virtualearthmobile.exe

formatexecption

application::run+oxf

formatpocketearth::main+oxb

I have uninstalled all files in all areas twice and reinstalled and reset still not running.

Is an older version available that I might reload?

Thanks

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

Pete — Wed, 16 May 2007 22:51:39 GMT

I just downloaded ver. 1.69 to my xv6700 ppc, and it works WONDERFULLY for the most part, but there is one annoying GLITCH:

When I press "Get Directions" for map or text, the directions will show the TEXT FORMAT CODE, so directions will look like this:

Depart <span id="instructionKeyword">Morro Dr</span> (north) (0.1mi)

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

ptousig — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:28:45 GMT

Very cool.

One suggestion: Could we have some visual clue that data is being downloaded? Something that tells me that the connection to the server is working and that a better image is on its way.

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

John — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:43:14 GMT

unexpected error

virtualearthmobile.exe

formatexecption

application::run+oxf

formatpocketearth::main+oxb

I also have the above error after installing this application today. I had the previous working find about 1 year ago and have just now started using it again. Any Idea what the issue could be?

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.69

Geoff — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:25:38 GMT

I have also got this error message in ALL versions that I try to use (the latest being 1.69. This is frustrating because VEM used to work perfectly ans was a GREAT application until about 6 mon ths ago when it crashed:

unexpected error

virtualearthmobile.exe

formatexecption

application::run+oxf

formatpocketearth::main+oxb

Nothing I do can get this app working.... although, tantalisingly, it can still 'locate me'!!

Any ideas anybody? Jason...?

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.71

markovich — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:55:44 GMT

i guess this will make me happy if VEM allow me to specify path for cache directory.

re: Virtual Earth Mobile 1.71

Rich Z — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:31:05 GMT

Has VEM stopped working. It cau't locate any addresses.

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Rich Z — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:34:25 GMT

Has VEM stopped working. It cau't locate any addresses.

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Merrill — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:28:14 GMT

I had an earlier version of vem which worked well on my tmobile dash upgraded to wm6 however it stopped locating addresses, so I upgraded to 1.71 after uninstalling the app and deleting all the folders (I hope). Still cannot find anything. The map scrolls and zooms, but without the find function it's useless. I have searched the blogs with little success other than a clean uninstall/install. Can anyone suggest why the find function may not be working?