Enable Virtual Earth Inertia

Inertia is that cool spinning of the globe effect in Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. Well, it's actually turned OFF by default so you wouldn't necessarily know that inertia is available in Virtual Earth but it is. Go figure. Here's how to enable it:

• Ensure you have the 3D add on installed. If you don't or have issues installing it, check out my blog post Overcoming Proxy Issues with Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D.
• Go to 3D mode.
• Click on the options button (in red, below).

• Click on the "3D settings" button
• Click on the "Preferences" tab
• Check the box (the only box) for "Continue Earth motion after dragging."

And that takes care of that. Now you will have the fluid motion of flying over the Earth and spinning the globe with complete disregard for senseless behavior.

 

 

 

 

CP

Comments

• Anonymous
  July 15, 2008
  Thank you very much for these clear directions on how to turn it back on.  :)

• Anonymous
  October 10, 2008
  I love virtual earth thanks for the information !

• Anonymous
  October 13, 2008
  Wow, this Virtual Earth Inertia globe feature is soooo cool =]  Thanks a lot for this clue :)

• Anonymous
  November 21, 2008
  This feature is very useful and cool!!

• Anonymous
  January 08, 2009
  This is a lot of fun spinning the globe.Thanks for this info

• Anonymous
  May 02, 2009
  This is really cool feature... didn't know it was there... thanks for the pointer!

• Anonymous
  May 23, 2009
  Awesome, thanks for the link to the proxy issue. That solved my problem.

• Anonymous
  May 27, 2009
  I never know about this! Thanks for pointing it out, what else is there I don't know?

• Anonymous
  May 31, 2009
  Microsoft has a ton of cool gadgets/features just like Google does. I can't remember the URL to the Microsoft earth telescope but it's awesome.

• Anonymous
  July 21, 2010
  . I can't remember the URL to the Microsoft earth telescope but it's awesome.