Required update to Virtual Earth Mobile

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Michael O. Schoneman — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:17:27 GMT

Is the updated source available?

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pcause — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:54:46 GMT

Love the app. I have an XVY6700 from Verizon. In the phone app I enabled the locaiton services, but when I go to Locate Me/GPS the app says it can not access the GPS. Does the app need a GPS card or can it work with the phone based capabilities?

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FrankN — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 17:05:06 GMT

I have the Sprint PPC6700 and a Bluetooth GPS receiver. I have verified that I have connectivity. However I can't get this app to recognize my GPS receiver.
Help.

Virtual Earth Mobile

shino-blog (Avi's) — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:12:24 GMT

Virtual Earth Mobile

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Carey Woods — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 04:54:58 GMT

Nice

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Ryan — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 07:59:54 GMT

Does this app work with the Cingular 2125 WM5.0 Smartphone?

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jpf — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:31:38 GMT

Works well on my M3000 (QTEK 9100 by Orange)with VisualGPS + Navigator 5.210.
New GPS icon in WM5/Parameters/System : so BT GPS (Royaltek RBT 2010) on COM6 for the device, and COM8 for programs, automatic control to allow others programs to access GPS data.
TTN5 : GPS/BT on COM8
VisualGPS : GPS on SER08

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Mxnix — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:39:41 GMT

Seems to constantly freeze or not find addresses 10 40 years extant.

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rbg08 — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:59:08 GMT

I'm having the same problem with an X51v running WM5. Find Address does not work, even when I use the same format in the Help documentation. The program also crashes a lot when searching for a business. The previous version did not have these problems on my device.

Nowa wersja Virtual Earth Mobile

bartek's blog — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:33:45 GMT

Jeśli używasz Virtual Earth Mobile będziesz musiał zaktualizować swojego klienta do wersji 1.50 przed...

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BillC — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 05:08:46 GMT

Nice on a Palm 700w Jason! What are you trying to do? Google?

axim x50 + Bluetooth GPS

David Andrews — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:14:52 GMT

I like your Virtual Earth Mobile ver 1.5 with my WM 5 upgrade Axim. Selecting he "Locate Me" and GPS sub option result in error message
"Unable to obtain a location from a GPS device". My Bluetooth GPS Device can be seen on Com8: @4800 baud. How can I tell you Virtual Eart Mobile software to find my GPS at
that location?

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jaxf250 — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:59:16 GMT

Very Nice Jason! Great app.

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Dragan — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 07:59:50 GMT

Works well on Cingular 8125. Thanks!!!

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Steve Mueller — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:40:29 GMT

I'm using a version with no version number, and it's still working for me on 2/13.

By the way, why are the APIs changing? That's usually a bad thing.

Steve

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Zachery Jacobson — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:47:17 GMT

When will the updated source be released? This program is great!!! =)

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Jason Winnebeck — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 04:46:08 GMT

I'd also would really like to see the source to this new version. I was working with the old QVGA version and I had updated it to VGA and worked on making it perform faster. This new version comes as VGA aware now but for some reason it is really slow so I want to see if I can improve this one for my device (Dell Axim x51v)

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P Cause — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:24:47 GMT

I've tried several addresses in NY City, Manhattan, and this stuff isn't finding them. Google local mobile finds them. Anyone else notice this?

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kashif — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:49:56 GMT

I have iPaq hw6510a builtin GPS. can I use your app and navigate through maps? also I tried running your app and I got this error.

"error reteriving information from user datastore. platform not found"

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akheron — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:17:34 GMT

the new 1.50 crashes and give me error message when I try to close the application. I'm on Axim X30 high (2003SE/QVGA)

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Arthur — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:11:48 GMT

What is the diffrence between this version and version available on Virtual Earth Mobile web site: http://www.viavirtualearth.com/vve/Gallery/VEMobile.ashx ?
Seems that this version has extra file: System.Web.Services.dll.

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Paul — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 02:01:07 GMT

I have the Pharos GPS-360 w/ Bluetooth dock and can't get it to work with the WM5 GPS control panel and Virtual Earth Mobile.

I have Mapopolis and Pocket Streets & Trips working with the GPS receiver, but they don't use the GPS control panel. They use the COM ports I set up in the Bluetooth COM port setup. I'm using COM6 for incoming and COM7 (4800 baud )for outgoing in the Bluetooth COM port setup.

I've tried every combination of COM6 and COM7 in the GPS control panel with no luck. Can anyone help?

In the Bluetooth COM port setup, the COM ports are referred to as "incoming" and "outgoing".

In the WM5 GPS Control Panel, they're referred to as "program" and "hardware".

How do they relate? Is the "incoming" port the "program" or the "hardware" port?

Do I need to set up different ports than the "incoming" and "outgoing" ports for the "program" and "hardware" ports?

Thanks

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Douglas — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:21:07 GMT

How do I set the default location?

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Novinski — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:10:53 GMT

Respected Sir,

Is there any even remote chance you could make the source code to version 1.50 of VEMobile available to us, please, preety please!? :(
A couple of my friends and I were working on a non-commercial mobile application that was based on your previous version of your application for a school project.

We added a class pushpin to draw puspins on top of VE map tiles, and it was almost working fine, even after that feb 12th (cause that one "tiles3" tile server was still functioning even after feb 12th).

But today as we were checking the app once again, we found out that EVEN that one tile server is now off!!! :'(

We don't have the strength to integrate v2 tile serving by the time when the app is due to be turned in, so is there any chance you could help us please at least by publish that part of the code that does tile requests work (previously MapTiles.cs file) - we've started looking at AtlasUIMap.js but doubt will understand it in time... One thing more about VEMobile 1.50 (I see 1.50 should work with GPS on non-WM5 Poctket PCs, which is a big plus because then we won't have to work exclusively just on the WM5 emulator anymore, since we don't own a WM5 GPS capable device), could you give some directions on how you did that (was that part written in native code, would you mind sharing that too, please)?!?

Please, please, please... It goes without saying that in the about box, our app will have/has already "based on VEMobile by Jason Fuller"?!? And if you wish, we could even once our project's done share our source code with you (and everyone else if you don't mind). Considering it's a uni project that won't be anything that spectacular, I'll admit that, but it will draw pushpins on top of your map to locations a db holds?

My email if you read this and have mercy on us :D or the time to contact me is novinski[at]bk.ru ([at] is obviously @ sign)...TIA

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luis — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 04:11:25 GMT

is good

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ZachAJ — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:35:18 GMT

http://www.brains-n-brawn.com/default.aspx?vDir=cfworldwind

Hey folks - it looks like Mr. Fuller made his code available to this web site. I am a student who was using this for a project, and you can use the code contained at this site to fix the tile downloading functionality. I used the standalone code, it just requires some tweaks to the geturl and X/Y to long/lat and long/lat to X/Y functions.

Good luck!

Nice!!!

Yipyap — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 01:16:48 GMT

Awesome! I have an HP iPaq rx3115. I can punch in my coordinates off my GPS and see where i am. Now if i only i could choose to download certain parts of the map to a storage card for veiwing offline later... But this is already pretty pimpin!

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Dylan Greene — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 23:11:52 GMT

GPS does not work with Smartphones because Smartphones do not have the GPS Control Panel.

Are you going to add the ability to configure or autodetect GPS devices for Smartphones?

If you are not, can you release the latest source so somebody else can.

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Tom Happ — Mon, 01 May 2006 21:31:25 GMT

This doesn't work on my T-mobile MDA - it only shows a small square of map in the center with white all around, and does not seem to load in map tiles as I scroll.

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Michael A. Krehan — Thu, 04 May 2006 17:23:07 GMT

It RULES. The only problem is that it does not pick the correct storage card to save the tile cache to. After I unlocked the extended ROM of my XV6700, the program crashes on startup. Here's the callstack:

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+0x12
Map::.ctor+0x68
FormPocketEarth::.ctor+0x97
FormPocketEarth::Main+0xa

Looks like it's trying to get the storage path (which is probably incorrectly returned as /Extended_ROM when it should be "/Storage Card", and creates a directory there, which is not allowed on the EROM's file system.

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Alberto Pujia albpujia@tin.it — Thu, 25 May 2006 21:29:14 GMT

Is the updated source available?

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mark — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:17:46 GMT

wifi locater doesn't work for me.. gives the error message 'the wifi information was not in the expected format: SetAutoLocateViewport(3779463196, -122.4214631, 15, true, "");

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Matthieu — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:52:14 GMT

On my K-JAM I've a format exception every time I try to find a place by address. Source code is available ?

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Michael Schwarz — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:52:03 GMT

Is it working still, or did the Live.com service change?

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windowsmobile — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:45:37 GMT

Yes, local.live.com changed their server, which broke a few features of Virtual Earth mobile, such as Business Search and WiFi location. At http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/06/27/649384.aspx you can find version 1.64 which fixes these problems.

Thanks,
Jason Fuller

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Henry Habermacher — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:53:53 GMT

A nice tool. Just a view things I don't like:
- If I install VEM on my storagecard it will not find the help files. The path seems to be hardcoded and not relative to the installation path.
- If I zoom in further than where tiles are available the tile (no map available) is loaded and is overwriting the zoomed tile. This doesn't make sense.
- I would like to have the cache on my smartcard (which has a size of 1GByte) instead of the main memory (that's very limited). So I could cache more or less the whole world even in the highest resolution arial and road view.

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LeonardoSalvatore — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:51:03 GMT

A very nice application!!!

I developed that.
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/GpsTracer.asp

We could merge it as a single great application ;)

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Rajesh Mahant — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:18:32 GMT

Great program. I have the Pharos BTGPS and the program can not see my GPS. I have it on COM7 via Bluetooth setup and I have WM05 on Samsung I730 where I set GPS hardware port to COM7 via the WM05 GPS Settings.

Thanks for the great program. Using v1.5. For whatever reason 1.64 could no install on my I730

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vatovani — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:43:08 GMT

Is the updated source available? I would like to know, how to make directions an route planning on ppc.

thx sandi

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Anna — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:39:15 GMT

How I can use the virtual earth map in to my project.

Waht all changes need my project

Help me please

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éric20 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:20:40 GMT

Is there any way to augment the WiFi location database by entering the AP at home and at work?

(in the same line as skyhook is currently doing)

NB: works great on Samsung SGH-i600 with BT GPS