Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
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The Code Trip
The Code Trip is a bunch of Microsoft Technical Evangelists jumping on a bus and touring the western...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 03/12/2008
Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper
Creating Microsoft Virtual Earth mashups and applications just got a whole lot easier. A group of 11...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 03/10/2008
GITA GIS Conference
Ok, with MIX behind us (just barely) I'm now looking forward to the GITA (Geospatial Information and...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 03/09/2008
MIX 2008 Hands On Lab
I mentioned previously that I written the Hands On Lab for Virtual Earth at MIX this year. If you...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 03/09/2008
MIX 2008 Wrap Up (Virtual Earth)
I'm leaving MIX today. No, I didn't blog as much as I thought I would. My presentation was yesterday...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 03/07/2008
Virtual Earth Appliance
Public sector? Firewall constraints? Can't access Virtual Earth over the Internet and you need a...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 03/04/2008
MIX 2008 - Here we go....
I just arrived in Las Vegas from Seattle on a plane stuffed with Microsoft folks. We are all pumped...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 03/04/2008
Deprecating Older Versions of Virtual Earth
We're doing a little house cleaning, so we're going to be taking down some of the older version of...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 03/03/2008
NYC Transit Trip Planner
Jerry Skaw of the Virtual Earth Public Sector Team details New York City's Transit Trip Planner...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 02/13/2008
London Executive
Ok, so I know our Bird's Eye imagery is cool and all (did I just say that?); but, the London...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 02/12/2008
NBC Weather Plus
NBC Weather Plus has integrated some seriously slick weather tracking data with Microsoft Virtual...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 02/11/2008
Traffic by Live Search Maps Vista Gadget Returns
I've had this sitting in my inbox for a couple weeks, but for those of you who hadn't heard the long...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 02/11/2008
Windermere
The Pacific Northwest real estate market search for real estate is now complete. If you want to find...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 02/05/2008
Yellow Book
David Carradine has spoken. Yellow Book is the latest portal to agree to use Microsoft Virtual Earth...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 02/05/2008
California School Finder
I had to take a trip down memory lane for this one. I grew up in So Cal and if you've read my blog...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 02/04/2008
Virtual Earth Version 2 Being Deprecated
It's been far too long with way too many versions out there, but I wanted to alert everyone about...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 02/04/2008
Google Suggests Using Microsoft MapCruncher
Being the Microsoft Virtual Earth Platform Evangelist, I'm all about getting the word out about...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 01/29/2008
New Imagery, January 2008
27+ TB of imagery have just been added to Virtual Earth. 3D CitiesUSARedding, CAColorado Springs,...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 01/26/2008
Yellow Pages Group (Canada)
The Yellow Pages Group published a press release about their launch with Virtual Earth. Read below....
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 01/23/2008
Live Search Racing Team
Virtual Earth is a part of the Live Local Search team which is a part of the Live Search team which...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 01/22/2008
KSPR - Springfield, MO
The list of broadcasters using Virtual Earth continues to grow. KSPR in Springfield, MO is now...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 01/22/2008
VE and the BBC
The British Broadcast Corporation has agreed to use Virtual Earth. The plane crash at Heathrow was...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 01/21/2008
Visualizing Broadcast Areas in Virtual Earth
Our Microsoft Certified Partners SpatialPoint are at it again. They've published a new visualization...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 01/21/2008
Live Search Maps China Tops Google and Baidu
I can't read this article, but some of my cohort here in Redmond can. The folks at ZOL (CNET) have...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 01/21/2008
3DVia Survey
For those of you who have used the 3DVia toolset for creating 3D models and injecting them into Live...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 01/21/2008
Weather Central
Jerry Skaw from The Virtual Earth Public Sector Marketing Team posted a blog entry highlighting how...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 01/18/2008
Virtual Earth Innovation at Harley-Davidson
Hopefully, by now you are all aware of the Great Roads application which Harley-Davidson rolled out...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 01/17/2008
Visualizing ESRI ArcGIS Data in Virtual Earth Using Arc2Earth
Brian Flood from Spatial Data Logic has released an add-in for ESRI ArcGIS which enables data...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 12/22/2007
Case Studies: MarketLinx & iFly
Every now and then the Virtual Earth Marketing Team posts case studies for technical decision makers...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 12/21/2007
The Virtual Earth Team Wants Your Feedback
We've set up a few surveys to get a better understand of what it is you actually want out of a...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 12/14/2007
Live Search Instant Answers Clicks-Thru to Live Search Maps China
Yesterday we announced the launch of our Live Search Maps localization of world locations in Chinese...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 12/13/2007
Live Search Maps - China!
We've launched our Live Search Maps site in Chinese! Not only that but we have street data for...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 12/12/2007
Microsoft Acquires Multimap
Today, we're announcing our acquisition of Multimap. Here's the release briefing: Microsoft Acquires...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 12/12/2007
Virtual Earth Business Decision Maker Webcast Posted
The Microsoft Webcast, "See How Virtual Earth 6.0 Provides an Immersive Web Experience (Level 100)"...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 11/12/2007
Virtual Earth Partner Webcast Posted
The Microsoft Partner Program Webcast, "Virtual Earth Briefing: What’s New in the latest VE Platform...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 11/12/2007
Virtual Earth Developer Webcast Posted
The MSDN Webcast, "Build Rich User Experiences with Virtual Earth 6.0 (Level 100)" from last week is...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 11/12/2007
Monitor Power Outages with Virtual Earth
Progress Energy has the right idea. With the help of iFactor Consulting and Virtual Earth, they are...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 11/02/2007
Starbucks.com Powered by Virtual Earth...v6 no less!
The folks at Starbucks just made it a whole lot easier to find their stores. They've added some new...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 10/31/2007
New Virtual Earth Case Study - Coldwell Banker
We recently launched a new case study (and yes, I'm a little slow getting this out) describing how...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 10/29/2007
Virtual Earth - Authenticate and Track Usage
So, you want to know what kind of traffic your Virtual Earth application is getting? You want to...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 10/29/2007
Virtual Earth Web Casts
I have a few web casts that may be of interest if you want to get more information about Virtual...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 10/23/2007
OGC - We're Back!
Microsoft has rejoined the Open Geospatial Consortium as a Principal Member! And, we're pretty...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 10/23/2007
Virtual Earth for SharePoint
Rachna posted a great blog entry for his web part using Virtual Earth. I get this request all the...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 10/23/2007