Happy Earth Day, 2008 April 22, 2008 It’s been a crazy travel schedule and I’m just now getting a chance to do some blogging (and not for long). NAB in Vegas was awesome – I had no idea how m…
Virtual Earth & DigitalGlobe - Worldwide Imagery Improvement October 07, 2008 Well, well, well what have we here? We now have access to one of the highest resolution global satellite imagery and aerial photography collections (460 …
Australia in Windows Map Application, Bing Maps and Virtual Earth August 01, 2006 Microsoft Virtual Earth and Windows Map Application are live with support for Australia.The developer features include:Geo-coding and parsing for Australi…
Fly like a bird…over Paris February 04, 2009 Grab a baguette, a little cheese, a bottle of wine, and head to Paris. It’s a click away with the new bird’s-eye images of Paris (and a long list of ot…
Drawing Tools for Virtual Earth June 11, 2007 ***Updated Feb 2023*** I get asked by developers a lot about how they can leverage the nifty drawing tools that are on Live Search Maps. Well, you can try…
Shapefile Layers on a Virtual Earth Map June 27, 2008 Head to https://samples.bingmapsportal.com/ to find these Geospatial XML , GeoXML & GeoJSON samples and more!Read Geospatial XML string The Bing Maps V8 W…
Map Data Release – January, 2009 January 20, 2009 Just a quick note to mention that we updated the road data for North America, Europe and Asia in Microsoft Virtual Earth. You probably wouldn’t notice sin…
Yellow Pages Group (Canada) January 23, 2008 The Yellow Pages Group published a press release about their launch with Virtual Earth. Read below.Yellow Pages Group Strengthens Connection Between Buyer…
Enable Virtual Earth Inertia July 16, 2008 *** Updated 2023 *** Inertia is that cool spinning of the globe effect in Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. Well, it’s actually available in the new 3D city exp…
Virtual Earth Technology Preview: Street-side Imagery March 01, 2006 Update: Find out more about Bing Maps Streetside at Streetside View | Aerial Images | Choose Bing Maps API (microsoft.com) In 2006, the Virtual Earth team…