Another big day for Virtual Earth in the portal space. Granted, it’s our own search portals but it’s great to see the platform getting more use and exposure worldwide.
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Did you know that you can easily place GeoSpatial XML Shapefiles on a Bing Map? We have samples available in both the iSDK & Samples.BingMapsPortal.com!
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“Innovating to Improve the Planet.” That’s the mantra of the Microsoft Environment Group. Their is sole focus is the environment and what we can do to improve it.
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WPF still seems to be one of the most popular options for building a Windows Maps Application, Today we recommend wrapping the XAML control in a WPF "wrapper" to get all the benefits of the XAML control with the same utility as WPF.
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20TB of new imagery….laughable compared to the 69TB+ from May’s Virtual Earth Imagery Release; then again, when’s the last time you transferred 20TB of data? Here’s the list for June!
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Perhaps you know that Virtual Earth-3DVia by Dassault Systems is software for creating models in 3D; perhaps you didn’t. We haven’t seen many models built out, but what we’ve seen have been okay – but just okay.
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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is an incredible new visualization technology from Microsoft and since we are “One Microsoft” with some extremely exciting user experience software coming to the forefront
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A couple days ago, CNN was broadcasting news about the horrific weather in the Midwest. Well, it turns out they have a new option for illustrating their news stories with maps and imagery – Microsoft Virtual Earth.
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Are you looking to get a Bing Map on your iPhone? There are now 2 ways, Microsoft Start & the new Bing App
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Are you kidding me? 69.2 Terabytes?? I was once asked at a show how Microsoft handles so much data when transferring it over the Internet to the data centers. New 3D models (Version 2 of the processing software).
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