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Virtual Earth Version 6 - Now Available
The Virtual Earth version 6 API is now available. The launch included several new exciting features...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 10/17/2007
MapCruncher Beta for Virtual Earth
It's official - MapCruncher is now a supported beta product by the Virtual Earth team! This is big....
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 10/15/2007
MSN Mexico, Motorola & Virtual Earth
MSN Mexico (aka Prodigy MSN) launched an application with Motorola using Virtual Earth as a backdrop...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 10/02/2007
Locking a Virtual Earth Map
There may be times when you don't want to have a draggable map. Oh, yes all the flexibility of...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 09/28/2007
Public Sector Virtual Earth Road Show
The US Public Sector DPE Team, in partnership with the Public Sector Virtual Earth & Vexcel...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 09/28/2007
FedEx Integrates Virtual Earth
Federal Express has launched their new drop box locator service using Virtual Earth. Search for the...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 09/26/2007
Environmental Protection Agency & Virtual Earth
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has licensed the Microsoft® Virtual Earth™ platform...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 09/14/2007
Marriott Integrates Virtual Earth to Find Hotels
Today, Marriott replaced their MapPoint Web Service maps with Virtual Earth maps. The implementation...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 09/13/2007
Virtual Earth Version 5 SDK in Japanese
Since we have Virtual Earth localized in Japanese and have good imagery and street data in Japan, we...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 09/11/2007
Weather Central and Virtual Earth
Weather Central recently launched their new broadcast platform using Virtual Earth. This is awesome...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 09/08/2007
How To: Skipping Zoom Levels in Virtual Earth
One of my well respected customers asked me today if we would support the ability to change the way...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 09/07/2007
Additional Virtual Earth Blog
Johannes Kebeck is a Technology Specialist on the Virtual Earth Sales Team. Besides being an all...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 09/07/2007
InmanTV Interview
Hey, that's me! In early August I was asked to interview with Jessica Swesey from Inman to talk...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 09/07/2007
Disabling Pushpin Rollover Popups
So, I haven't done a Virtual Earth code sample for a while and have noticed that I've been hit with...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 08/30/2007
The WhereAmI Project
Several years ago we had a product called MapPoint Location Server. The concept was that we could...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 08/29/2007
Microsoft vs. Google vs. Yahoo! vs MapQuest...A Customer's Perspective
Recently, one of our enterprise customers decided to re-evaluate their mapping options for their...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 08/28/2007
Live Search Mobile - Shipped
Live Search for Mobile Browse (point your mobile browser https://m.live.com ) If you’ve used this...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 07/15/2007
Virtual Earth @ WPC
Virtual Earth was featured in Steve Ballmer's keynote speech at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 07/12/2007
Virtual Earth Survey
Got an opinion about Virtual Earth? Yeah, I know you do...I read the comments you guys post! :)...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 07/05/2007
New Partnership with Maporama
We've partnered with Maporama out of France to expand our services through a joint offering to the...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 07/05/2007
You want MORE, BETTER, NEWER imagery?
How's this for a Virtual Earth imagery, cartographic map and 3D model update? Yes, the API is...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 07/03/2007
Find Money with Virtual Earth
Bank of America is the latest customer to adopt Virtual Earth for their retail locator application....
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 07/02/2007
Virtual Earth SDK Version 5 Now Live!
The SDK for Version 5 is now live and available for online browsing or download. Start taking...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/11/2007
Drawing Tools for Virtual Earth
I get asked by developers a lot about how they can leverage the nifty drawing tools that are on Live...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/11/2007
HomePages.com Leveraging Virtual Earth
Homepages.com has launched their map based search using Virtual Earth. The solution leverages our...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/10/2007
Polygonally Search for Real Estate
John L. Scott does it again. JLS has rolled out their "neighborhood wizard" to help users more...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/09/2007
Canadians, Find Harry Potter with Virtual Earth
Chapters Book Stores is leveraging Virtual Earth to help Harry Potter fans find their bookstores in...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/09/2007
Dig for Gold within Virtual Earth
In Australia the NineMSN team has just launched Goldrush – a big initiative to propel search usage....
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/09/2007
Webcast: Virtual Earth Platform, Version 5 Overview
I'll be doing a web cast covering the technicalities for Virtual Earth, Version 5. It's a Level 200...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 05/15/2007
Virtual Earth @ Maker Faire 2007
I'll be working the booth at the Maker Faire this weekend in San Mateo, CA. I'll be showing some...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 05/15/2007
Virtual Earth @ Where 2.0
I'll be working the booth at Where 2.0 and running the "Going Deep with Virtual Earth" session of...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 05/10/2007
Priceline Goes Live with Virtual Earth
Priceline.com just rolled out a new way to visualize locations on a map using Virtual Earth. Do a...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 05/10/2007
Find Real Estate in Canada
RealEstatePlus.ca just launched their site using Virtual Earth. To try it out, enter postal code...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 05/09/2007
MSDN Webcast: The Russ and Joe Developer Show: Virtual Earth (Level 100)
Mark Merchant - Virtual Earth Technology Specialist for the East Coast - will be presenting on the...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 05/09/2007
Momentum Webcast: Discover Microsoft Virtual Earth 5.0 (Level 100)
Tyler Davey from Infusion Development will be providing a business (level 100) overview of Virtual...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 05/05/2007
The Virtual Earth Lab @ MIX '07
Tonight is the night of the big mashup camp for all you late night campers. It will be @ The...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 04/30/2007
April 2007 Virtual Earth Imagery Release
We just released tons of new imagery and 3D models. The list is below... New UltraCam Orthos (2D...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 04/28/2007
Move.com Now Using Virtual Earth
Move.com (aka Realtor.com) launched tonight using Virtual Earth for their home property search. Move...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 04/27/2007
Virtual Earth Version 5 is Now Live!
Here's the official release doc for Virtual Earth V5: The new Virtual Earth platform The Virtual...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 04/27/2007
CP Taking Over...
This blog is getting stale and needs a new owner, so I'm taking over. I've been running the Virtual...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 04/27/2007
Birds Eye Navigation Improvement
A nice improvement was just released for Virtual Earth’s Birds Eye navigation at...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 12/13/2006
More Virtual Earth Real Estate - Berkshire Home Services
Virtual Earth powered real estate search has been a subject of this blog many times in the past few...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 11/15/2006
Virtual Earth 3D Launches
The launch of Virtual Earth 3D makes the power of Microsoft’s new online mapping platform available...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 11/06/2006