The Live Search Maps China site just got some improvements.
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Argentina is now live on Virtual Earth! Thiscomes with geocoding places and addresses, road maps, satellite imagery and photography and traffic incident and flow information.
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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 million sq. km. + 1 million sq. km. per day moving forward) through a deal we’ve just struck with DigitalGlobe. We’ll finally be able to backfill areas around the world where people have come to my blog and complained about Virtual Earth not having good imagery or photos in their...
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I haven’t talked about WorldWide Telescope since it launched; but, since Microsoft Virtual Earth is a part of that Microsoft Research project I thought it would interest some of you that we decided to include some of the WorldWide Telescope into Virtual Earth.
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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!
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The most basic element of Virtual Earth – maps. The Bing Maps Web control is pretty simple because you could just copy and paste code into notepad, save it and run it in a browser.
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You really have two choices, either make a Web Application that is cross platform or target the Mobile OS Specifically. Bing Maps offers both options! Bing Maps Web control SDK or Bing Maps for Mobile SDK
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If you follow Microsoft Virtual Earth I’m sure you’ve picked up some blog posts that posted some of the features for this release, but those posts mysteriously disappeared. Information leaked out and you wondered, “Was that real?”
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We’ve just made updates to our consumer site, Bing Maps which are tied back to some of the updates in the Virtual Earth platform, so please…enjoy!
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Did you know the Bing Maps Spatial Data Service has all US Postal Codes and more? This service is what Excel and Power BI leverage to allow you to show colored polygons for regions on a map!
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