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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If you’ve visited us at the Microsoft booth at the Shop.org conference, you may have seen the Microsoft Virtual Earth demonstration application illustrating Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 and Virtual Earth working together. The concept for the application is based on inventory data in Commerce Server being used to help end users find the nearest location that carries the item you’re searching for – an advanced store locator and...
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I have seen a few good sites using Virtual Earth to visualize weather information. You can do it too! Check out how easy it is using our sample code.
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There are certain areas of the world where Virtual Earth’s imagery is, well, low resolution. Did you know that you can overlay your own imagery to "patch" it?
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Don’t like JavaScript? You want your managed code with the new wave of Microsoft maps?
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ESRI jdoes support using Bing Maps in both their Desktop and Server offerings.
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Richard Jones at Binary Refinery pinged me about this fun thing to do / scientific experiment with balloons and maps so I thought I would share some samples that you could use to build your own tracking solution.
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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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There are some great samples available on Github. Here a few you can leverage to get an adress from a point clicked on a map
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The Microsoft Maps team has created a collection rendering all of the earthquakes in the USGS data service
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