Partager via

Required update to Virtual Earth Mobile

  • Article

If you use Virtual Earth Mobile, you will need to update your app to version 1.50 before February 12.  That's the day that the Virtual Earth servers will switch over completely to their new interface, and old clients will stop working.  The new version is attached to this blog entry.

In addition to supporting the new interface, new features include:

  • driving directions from the MSN Mobile website
  • WiFi locator
  • asynchronous loading of maps
  • stretching map tiles that are already downloaded until new tiles are downloaded
  • finer zoom levels
  • help page
  • support for builtin GPS on the HP iPaq

Thank you.

- Jason Fuller

VirtualEarthMobile.cab

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 07, 2006
    Is the updated source available?

  • Anonymous
    February 08, 2006
    Love the app.  I have an XVY6700 from Verizon.  In the phone app I enabled the locaiton services, but when I go to Locate Me/GPS the app says it can not access the GPS.  Does the app need a GPS card or can it work with the phone based capabilities?

  • Anonymous
    February 08, 2006
    I have the Sprint PPC6700 and a Bluetooth GPS receiver. I have verified that I have connectivity.  However I can't get this app to recognize my GPS receiver.
    Help.

  • Anonymous
    February 08, 2006
    Virtual Earth Mobile

  • Anonymous
    February 08, 2006
    Nice

  • Anonymous
    February 08, 2006
    Does this app work with the Cingular 2125 WM5.0 Smartphone?

  • Anonymous
    February 09, 2006
    Works well on my M3000 (QTEK 9100 by Orange)with VisualGPS + Navigator 5.210.
    New GPS icon in WM5/Parameters/System : so BT GPS (Royaltek RBT 2010) on COM6 for the device, and COM8 for programs, automatic control to allow others programs to access GPS data.
    TTN5 : GPS/BT on COM8
    VisualGPS : GPS on SER08

  • Anonymous
    February 09, 2006
    Seems to constantly freeze or not find addresses 10 40 years extant.

  • Anonymous
    February 09, 2006
    I'm having the same problem with an X51v running WM5. Find Address does not work, even when I use the same format in the Help documentation.  The program also crashes a lot when searching for a business.  The previous version did not have these problems on my device.

  • Anonymous
    February 09, 2006
    Jeśli używasz Virtual Earth Mobile będziesz musiał zaktualizować swojego klienta do wersji 1.50 przed...

  • Anonymous
    February 09, 2006
    Nice on a Palm 700w Jason! What are you trying to do? Google?

  • Anonymous
    February 09, 2006
    I like your Virtual Earth Mobile ver 1.5 with my WM 5 upgrade Axim.  Selecting he "Locate Me" and GPS sub option result in error message
    "Unable to obtain a location from a GPS device".  My Bluetooth GPS Device can be seen on Com8: @4800 baud.  How can I tell you  Virtual Eart Mobile software to find my GPS at
    that location?

  • Anonymous
    February 10, 2006
    TGIF!  (sort of..  I'll be working through the weekend yet again..sigh).   Oh yeah,...

  • Anonymous
    February 10, 2006
    Very Nice Jason! Great app.

  • Anonymous
    February 11, 2006
    Works well on Cingular 8125.  Thanks!!!

  • Anonymous
    February 12, 2006
    I'm using a version with no version number, and it's still working for me on 2/13.

    By the way, why are the APIs changing?  That's usually a bad thing.

    Steve

  • Anonymous
    February 14, 2006
    When will the updated source be released? This program is great!!! =)

  • Anonymous
    February 14, 2006
    I'd also would really like to see the source to this new version.  I was working with the old QVGA version and I had updated it to VGA and worked on making it perform faster.  This new version comes as VGA aware now but for some reason it is really slow so I want to see if I can improve this one for my device (Dell Axim x51v)

  • Anonymous
    February 14, 2006
    I've tried several addresses in NY City, Manhattan, and this stuff isn't finding them.  Google local mobile finds them.  Anyone else notice this?

  • Anonymous
    February 17, 2006
    I have iPaq hw6510a builtin GPS. can I use your app and navigate through maps? also I tried running your app and I got this error.

    "error reteriving information from user datastore. platform not found"

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2006
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2006
    What is the diffrence between this version and version available on Virtual Earth Mobile web site: http://www.viavirtualearth.com/vve/Gallery/VEMobile.ashx ?
    Seems that this version has extra file: System.Web.Services.dll.

  • Anonymous
    March 02, 2006
    I have the Pharos GPS-360 w/ Bluetooth dock and can't get it to work with the WM5 GPS control panel and Virtual Earth Mobile.

    I have Mapopolis and Pocket Streets & Trips working with the GPS receiver, but they don't use the GPS control panel. They use the COM ports I set up in the Bluetooth COM port setup. I'm using COM6 for incoming and COM7 (4800 baud )for outgoing in the Bluetooth COM port setup.

    I've tried every combination of COM6 and COM7 in the GPS control panel with no luck. Can anyone help?

    In the Bluetooth COM port setup, the COM ports are referred to as "incoming" and "outgoing".

    In the WM5 GPS Control Panel, they're referred to as "program" and "hardware".

    How do they relate? Is the "incoming" port the "program" or the "hardware" port?

    Do I need to set up different ports than the "incoming" and "outgoing" ports for the "program" and "hardware" ports?


    Thanks

  • Anonymous
    March 17, 2006
    I like my Cingular 2125 SmartPhone (see Windows SmartPhone can run my Web Apps).
     
    I went to Microsoft...

  • Anonymous
    March 30, 2006
    How do I set the default location?

  • Anonymous
    March 30, 2006
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    April 01, 2006
    is good

  • Anonymous
    April 05, 2006
    http://www.brains-n-brawn.com/default.aspx?vDir=cfworldwind

    Hey folks - it looks like Mr. Fuller made his code available to this web site. I am a student who was using this for a project, and you can use the code contained at this site to fix the tile downloading functionality. I used the standalone code, it just requires some tweaks to the geturl and X/Y to long/lat and long/lat to X/Y functions.

    Good luck!

  • Anonymous
    April 14, 2006
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    April 23, 2006
    GPS does not work with Smartphones because Smartphones do not have the GPS Control Panel.  

    Are you going to add the ability to configure or autodetect GPS devices for Smartphones?  

    If you are not, can you release the latest source so somebody else can.

  • Anonymous
    May 01, 2006
    This doesn't work on my T-mobile MDA - it only shows a small square of map in the center with white all around, and does not seem to load in map tiles as I scroll.

  • Anonymous
    May 04, 2006
    It RULES. The only problem is that it does not pick the correct storage card to save the tile cache to. After I unlocked the extended ROM of my XV6700, the program crashes on startup. Here's the callstack:

    NullReferenceException

    __Error::WinIOError+0x8a
    Directory::InternalCreateDirectory+0x139
    Directory::CreateDirectory+0x49
    TileCache::get_StorageCardPath+0x69
    TileCache::get_CachePath+0x2a
    TileCache::.ctor+0x7f
    TileManager::.ctor+0x34
    TileManager::Create+0x12
    Map::.ctor+0x68
    FormPocketEarth::.ctor+0x97
    FormPocketEarth::Main+0xa

    Looks like it's trying to get the storage path (which is probably incorrectly returned as /Extended_ROM when it should be "/Storage Card", and creates a directory there, which is not allowed on the EROM's file system.

  • Anonymous
    May 25, 2006
    Is the updated source available?

  • Anonymous
    June 22, 2006
    wifi locater doesn't work for me.. gives the error message 'the wifi information was not in the expected format: SetAutoLocateViewport(3779463196, -122.4214631, 15, true, "");

  • Anonymous
    June 24, 2006
    On my K-JAM I've a format exception every time I try to find a place by address. Source code is available ?

  • Anonymous
    June 27, 2006
    Is it working still, or did the Live.com service change?

  • Anonymous
    June 27, 2006
    Yes, local.live.com changed their server, which broke a few features of Virtual Earth mobile, such as Business Search and WiFi location.  At http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/06/27/649384.aspx you can find version 1.64 which fixes these problems.

    Thanks,
    Jason Fuller

  • Anonymous
    July 30, 2006
    A nice tool. Just a view things I don't like:
    - If I install VEM on my storagecard it will not find the help files. The path seems to be hardcoded and not relative to the installation path.
    - If I zoom in further than where tiles are available the tile (no map available) is loaded and is overwriting the zoomed tile. This doesn't make sense.
    - I would like to have the cache on my smartcard (which has a size of 1GByte) instead of the main memory (that's very limited). So I could cache more or less the whole world even in the highest resolution arial and road view.

  • Anonymous
    August 09, 2006
    A very nice application!!!


    I developed that.
    http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/GpsTracer.asp

    We could merge it as a single great application ;)

  • Anonymous
    August 28, 2006
    Great program.  I have the Pharos BTGPS and the program can not see my GPS.  I have it on COM7 via Bluetooth setup and I have WM05 on Samsung I730 where I set GPS hardware port to COM7 via the WM05 GPS Settings.

    Thanks for the great program. Using v1.5.  For whatever reason 1.64 could no install on my I730

  • Anonymous
    September 12, 2006
    Is the updated source available? I would like to know, how to make directions an route planning on ppc.

    thx sandi

  • Anonymous
    February 20, 2008
    How I can use the virtual earth map in to my project. Waht all changes need  my project Help me please

  • Anonymous
    April 07, 2008
    The comment has been removed