Blogs

Tyler Davey from Infusion Development will be providing a business (level 100) overview of Virtual Earth May 7 @ 1PM PDT. Follow this link to register for this web cast.  
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Tonight is the night of the big mashup camp for all you late night campers. It will be @ The Venetian in the Tuscana Room 3701 (3rd Floor) from 8P – 2A. For those of you unlucky enough to not be here, fear not. You can have access to the Virtual Earth Version 5 lab I wrote for MIX. I’ve pasted it below for your coding pleasure. It’s fairly simple, but highlights the core changes in Version 5 around the VEShape Class and...
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We just released tons of new imagery and 3D models. The list is below… New UltraCam Orthos (2D Aerial/Hybrid)USALa Jolla, CALa Mesa, CA Malibu, CAMiramar, CASan Francisco, CAAurora, ILIndianapolis, IN Joiliet, IL Naperville, ILSpeedway, IN Newark, NJ Brooklyn, NY Niagara Falls, NYRoseville, MNBeaverton, ORPortland, OR CanadaLevis-StRomuald (Quebec City)Toronto Bird’s Eye Imagery (Oblique)Riverside County, CADouglas County, COHamilton...
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Move.com (aka Realtor.com) launched tonight using Virtual Earth for their home property search. Move had previously been using Virtual Earth for their rental property search and now has expanded to include their houses for sale search. It’s a pretty slick implementation with a property search, custom icons, and popup divs for Bird’s Eye view. I do like how the Bird’s Eye is popped into these divs instead of changing their entire...
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Here’s the official release doc for Virtual Earth V5: The new Virtual Earth platform The Virtual Earth platform is an integrated set of services that combines unique bird’s eye, aerial, and 3D imagery with best-of-breed mapping, location and search functionality. With ongoing investments in innovation that are driven by customer feedback, the Virtual Earth platform 5.0 continues to offer new tools, advanced feature enhancements, and...
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This blog is getting stale and needs a new owner, so I’m taking over. I’ve been running the Virtual Earth & MapPoint B2B Blog for a couple years and with my new gig as the Virtual Earth Technical Evangelist it’s probably good to focus on the developer community a bit more. I’ll just combine the two so you can see what Enterprise Customers and Mashup Developers are doing, plus provide updates and insight into the VE...
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A nice improvement was just released for Virtual Earth’s Birds Eye navigation at http://local.live.com. The Birds Eye navigation thumbnail grid has been replaced with an inset map for easier usability (see screenshot below). Please note, this feature is currently only available at http://local.live.com, but will definitely be added as a feature in the next release of the Virtual Earth Map Control API. For more info on the http://local.live...
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Virtual Earth powered real estate search has been a subject of this blog many times in the past few months.   And, again, a number of additional companies have gone online with a Virtual Earth powered real estate search, bringing that same great experience to their customers in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Arizona, and many more areas.  Here are just a few of the sites newly powered by Virtual Earth: Jenny Pruitt & Associates...
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The launch of Virtual Earth 3D makes the power of Microsoft’s new online mapping platform available to Web developers as well as Live Search customers. Virtual Earth 3D provides developers with an immersive 3D application environment to implement searching, browsing and organizing local information. At launch, 3D terrain models are available globally, and 15 major U.S. cities boast textured building models. Web developers can implement...
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Please be advised that we will release a new version of the Virtual Earth Map Control on Monday, November 6th 2006.  We do not anticipate that this release will impact the service or uptime of the existing Virtual Earth Map Controls (http://dev.virtualearth.net/standard/v2/MapControl.js or http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/v3/MapControl.js). With this release Virtual Earth customers should not need to take any action to ensure that...
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