There’s a new initiative at Microsoft to bring together different parts of the company under a single umbrella to prove the whole is greater than the sum of all it’s parts. The Public Sector initiative, dubbed "The Single View Platform" brings several different Microsoft products together to form a SUPER geographically-based, data visualization product suite.
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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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A little linear algebra for you Canadians, eh? No less than 24 hours after I post “A Few Virtual Earth / Silverlight Demo Applications” I get an email from our Canadian Virtual Earth Sales Solution Specialist, Mike Pastushak, that The Weather Network has just released their new Silverlight / Virtual Earth Desktop Traffic Application – Traffic Eye.
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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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ESRI jdoes support using Bing Maps in both their Desktop and Server offerings.
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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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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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BC Hydro is using Virtual Earth to show their customers outages that they are aware of in British Columbia.
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Do you have a unique use of Virtual Earth on Earth Day?
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A few months ago we launched our new marketing site @ www.microsoft.com/maps. This site is a great place for a business decision maker to read up on Microsoft Maps & Virtual Earth.
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