Virtual Earth Partner Day!

I was honoured to be invited to come along to the Microsoft Virtual Earth Partner today in beautiful Sonning on the banks of the Thames.  Today I'm going to be talking, well actually more demoing the following things.

My goal with the 25 mins I was given was to really show off the art of the possible when it comes to mapping applications and the Virtual Earth platform.

Agenda:

• 82% of all data in the world has a location component, so what better way to display that data than on a map?
• Photosynth
  • https://labs.live.com/photosynth/view.html?collection=sanmarco/index1.sxs&st=coll
  • Cool Technology
  • Related to Virtual Earth
  • Live labs collaborating with other product groups to help improve features and add new capabilities
  • Last year in October
  • Before you had to switch between 3D mode and Ajax to see the Bird's Eye Imagery - now the same technology used in Photosynth allows us to see the bird's eye imagery in context

• Bird's Eye in 3D
  • https://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=skhkx0gzq0qp&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=15552566&where1=London&encType=1
  • Unique technology to Microsoft
  • Provides different perspective to satellite imagery - I can tell what buildings look like

• Popfly
  • https://www.popfly.com
  • Award winning mashup maker based in Silverlight
  • Build, publish and share your mashups in a visual way
  • Show Twitter Map: https://www.popfly.com/users/MikeGannotti/FirstTwitterMap

• Redfin
  • www.redfin.com
  • Search Palo Alto
  • Mention Region Outline
  • Show Mitchell Park
  • Show Schools

• 3D Modelling
  • Using 3DVia
  • Explain how to download it
  • Help Guide: https://help.live.com/help.aspx?project=das&market=en-us&querytype=keyword&query=qaf
  • Model Great House

• Superbowl Coverage
  • https://www.followthegame.com/
  • Demo
  • Show how they did it

• MapCruncher
  • https://research.microsoft.com/mapcruncher/
  • Free download
  • Reads in your map (jpg, tip etc) the lets you register it with real world
  • Do Microsoft UK Campus Example
  • Other, better examples of Map Crunching: https://research.microsoft.com/mapcruncher/Gallery/

• SportsDo
  • Close Great House 3D map in tab - can only have one 3D VE instance in the browser at one time
  • Show Ski Demo: https://www.sportsdo.net/ActivityView.aspx?sid=8289
  • GPS Tracking, recording the coordinates - plotted onto VE later on

• Xbox360
  • Navigate to Seattle
  • Fly around using xbox 360 controller

• Tesco
  • Store Locator: https://www.tesco.com/storelocator/
  • Search for Reading
  • Click on Reading Extra (#1) - talk about opening hours etc

• Live Quick Apps
  • https://dev.live.com/QuickApps/
  • Shows how you can leverage the Windows Live Services to provide more rich and compelling experiences for your users
  • All code is available to download and reuse! https://codeplex.com/WLQuickApps

• SharePoint web parts now on codeplex
  • https://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=tamtam&ReleaseId=10437
• Windows Live Dev Poster
  • https://dev.live.com/img/wlp-mix.pdf

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
    Today I had the pleasure to talk at the Realcomm Europe conference in London.  Realcomm is

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Hi Sasha - you are welcome!  It did go well and the Redfin demo got a few people in the audience scribbling down in their note books.  I'm in California/San Fran area in March and I'd love to meet yourself or the team from Redfin - are based in California? James

• Anonymous
  February 05, 2008
  The 2nd Popfly link gave IE7 quite a doozy. I really liked the SportsDo thing. Sounded like a neat concept.

• Anonymous
  February 06, 2008
  James, Sasha, engineering lead on Redfin's search team, here.  Thanks for mentioning us in your demo; I hope it went all went well.

• Anonymous
  February 15, 2008
  James, Yes, our search engineering team is based in downtown San Francisco, and we'd love to meet you.  My e-mail address at redfin is my first and last name separated by a dot; hope to hear from you soon! Sasha Aickin.