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  • Blog Post: Web Service Customer Service Update: MWS 4.1 CSR2

    Chris Pendleton
    As Chris points out, we are coming up on our next Customer Service Release for MapPoint Web Service . There are some great updates you have been asking for included in this CSR2 release, including: Improvements to geocoding in the US - With a new geocoding engine for the US, we are seeing substantially...
    on 5/10/2006

  • Blog Post: Live Search Maps Improves Internationally

    Chris Pendleton
    Another big day for Virtual Earth in the portal space. Granted, it's our own search portals but it's great to see the platform getting more use and exposure worldwide. Live Search Maps China has expanded it's offering (just in time for the Olympics). Live Search Maps Australia just launched (shortly...
    on 7/3/2008

  • Blog Post: Virtual Earth API Release Information, April 2009

    Chris Pendleton
    Today we released updates to the Microsoft Virtual Earth AJAX control and a new version of the Virtual Earth 3D map control. We’ve added a couple new methods for adding and removing pins (and DIVs) in the AJAX control; added performance improvements for AJAX and 3D; enhanced geocoding and parsing...
    on 4/9/2009

  • Blog Post: New Version of Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D and 3DVia

    Chris Pendleton
    We've released a new version of Virtual Earth 3D today. When you get to Live Search Maps and click 3D you'll be prompted to update your 3D control. As a part of this, you can also download the latest and greatest bits of 3DVia from Dassault Systèmes (or go to the 3DVia download center on Live.com...
    on 9/24/2008

  • Blog Post: Announcing the Bing Map App SDK…and 3 New Bing Map Apps

    Chris Pendleton
    Today is a big day for Bing Maps fans who have been eagerly awaiting their chance to strut their stuff in the Bing Map App Gallery. Beginning today, developers can download the Bing Map App SDK and start building, testing and submitting applications to Bing Maps to be featured in the gallery. “OMG! Where...
    on 6/7/2010

  • Blog Post: Announcing The Virtual Earth Web Service and Virtual Earth Map Control 6.2

    Chris Pendleton
    If you follow Microsoft Virtual Earth I'm sure you've picked up some blog posts that posted some of the features for this release, but those posts mysteriously disappeared. Information leaked out and you wondered, "Was that real?" Well, finally the definitive source on the new Virtual Earth Web Service...
    on 9/24/2008

  • Blog Post: Announcing Live Search Maps India

    Chris Pendleton
    We've just launched the new Live Search Maps India site and for a v1 it is SUPER robust. Check out this list of features: Street Maps for 9 important Indian cities Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, and Jaipur and National Road Network of India with roughly 20,000...
    on 9/17/2008

  • Blog Post: Live Search Maps China - New Features!

    Chris Pendleton
    The Live Search Maps China site just got some improvements. Innovation is burning like wildfire worldwide. Driving Direction – New! Country-wide (mainland China) road coverage Inter-city (e.g. Beijing to Shanghai ) and intra-city (e.g. Tiananmen to Bird's Nest in Beijing ) directions Multi-point...
    on 10/22/2008

  • Blog Post: Bing Maps Application Gallery Overview…New App!

    Chris Pendleton
    One of the most significant additions to the Bing Maps beta web site is the Application Gallery mentioned in my Bing Maps Adds Streetside, Enhanced Bird’s Eye, Photosynth and More post. The Bing Maps Application Gallery is a simplified way to use search and map visualization for dynamic applications...
    on 12/21/2009

  • Blog Post: Add Listings to Live Search Maps via The New Live Search Local Listings Center

    Chris Pendleton
    We've just released the ability to add your listings to Live Search Maps via the Live Search Local Listings Center (US only). Actually, the service had been in place for a while, but not many people knew about it and functionality was, well, rudimentary. Live Search Local (and Live Search Maps) lets...
    on 9/5/2008

  • Blog Post: Birds Eye Navigation Improvement

    Chris Pendleton
    A nice improvement was just released for Virtual Earth’s Birds Eye navigation at http://local.live.com . The Birds Eye navigation thumbnail grid has been replaced with an inset map for easier usability (see screenshot below). Please note, this feature is currently only available at http://local.live...
    on 12/13/2006

  • Blog Post: New Virtual Earth API Release - Virtual Earth 6.1

    Chris Pendleton
    Today we launched a new version of the Virtual Earth API . The release has a host of new features and takes advantage of some of the capabilities you've been envying on Live Search Maps. Below is a laundry list of new features in Virtual Earth 6.1 that we added today. The good news is that 6.1 is fully...
    on 4/11/2008

  • Blog Post: SQL Server 2008....Finally

    Chris Pendleton
    I've been hanging out with Ed Katibah in San Diego at the ESRI User Conference and not in the whole two days we stood in our circular booth did he mention this was going down tonight, but whatever Ed! Actually, the booth was so busy, we spent all of about 5 minutes catching up. I digress. After waiting...
    on 8/6/2008

  • Blog Post: Announcing the Microsoft Virtual Earth ASP .Net Server Control

    Chris Pendleton
    Don't like JavaScript? You want your managed code with the new wave of AJAX maps? Well, the long awaited Virtual Earth ASP .Net Server Control is now available for download as a part of the Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio . Here are some of the features and benefits of the control: Toolbox...
    on 7/28/2008

  • Blog Post: The Bing Maps Facebook tab gets a face-lift

    The Bing Team
    Earlier today, the Bing Maps Tab on Bing’s Facebook page got a major overhaul. The new content makes the tab a great resource to keep up to date with Bing Maps and experience our product. We focused the tab on four areas: Map Apps – Each map app is great, but their individual values are amplified when...
    on 11/9/2010

  • Blog Post: Bing Maps Adds Streetside, Enhanced Bird’s Eye, Photosynth and More

    Chris Pendleton
    Today is a day I’ve been waiting for. Today is the day that I can finally stop biting my lip and start blabbing to the world that YES we have Streetside photography in Bing Maps – woohoo! Today is the day we release our beta Silverlight version of Bing Maps and it is smoking hot. We’ve...
    on 12/2/2009

  • Blog Post: Virtual Earth SDK Version 5 Now Live!

    Chris Pendleton
    The SDK for Version 5 is now live and available for online browsing or download . Start taking advantage of the following new features: A completely new, advanced set of features for Pushpins, Polylines and Polygons Support for Popup Info Boxes with a custom look and feel A way to group shapes...
    on 6/11/2007

  • Blog Post: What's New in the AJAX Map Control

    The Bing Maps Blog Team
    Today we are officially introducing three new modules and several new features for the AJAX 7.0 map control. The new modules add some very handy features, and they really show off the dynamic module loading capabilities of the AJAX 7.0 control by adding functionality when you need it, and getting...
    on 7/13/2011

  • Blog Post: Virtual Earth Via Seadragon on iPhone

    Chris Pendleton
    Perhaps you’ve heard that the Live Labs team launched a free version of the Seadragon browser for iPhone …perhaps not. While the viewer is awesome and provides a killer photo viewer (arguably better than what comes with the iPhone) it also has Microsoft Virtual Earth included natively in the application...
    on 12/17/2008

  • Blog Post: Bing Maps Silverlight Control 1.0 Released

    Chris Pendleton
    After months of residing online as a community technology preview (CTP), the Bing Maps Silverlight Control (Version 1.0) has arrived and the .dlls are ready for your grubby, coding hands and vividly, creative minds to start bringing to life the next generation of location-based applications. The Bing...
    on 11/9/2009

  • Blog Post: New Features for Bing Maps REST Services

    The Bing Team
    A couple of weeks ago we announced Bing Maps is going mobile as the default map control on Windows Phone 7. Today it’s my turn to follow up with news of more goodness from Bing - new routing and geocoding features for Bing Maps REST Services – your choice when developing for mobile or when...
    on 10/11/2010

  • Blog Post: MapPoint 2009 (European Edition) Now Available

    Chris Pendleton
    We've officially released MapPoint 2009 European English Edition into the wild. Now our friends across the pond can experience the greatness of our desktop mapping application with data updates and a new user interface. MapPoint 2009 European Edition is available in English, German, French, Italian and...
    on 12/3/2008

  • Blog Post: WorldWide Telescope - New Release!

    Chris Pendleton
    The Microsoft Research Team has released an updated version of WorldWide Telescope for free download. The new release is jammed packed with features including my favorite, 3D Solar System and Universe View (plug in your X-Box controller prior to running WWT for fully immersive 3D tranquility). If there...
    on 10/29/2008

  • Blog Post: Virtual Earth 3D Launches

    Chris Pendleton
    The launch of Virtual Earth 3D makes the power of Microsoft’s new online mapping platform available to Web developers as well as Live Search customers. Virtual Earth 3D provides developers with an immersive 3D application environment to implement searching, browsing and organizing local information....
    on 11/6/2006

  • Blog Post: OLAP and Spatial Data Import COM Add-Ins FIXED for MapPoint!

    Chris Pendleton
    Here come the rolling punches of MapPoint information. Last week, I told you about the release of the Microsoft® MapPoint® Add-In for SQL Server as a free download to import, edit and save your data from SQL Server 2008 (spatially indexed by geometries and geographies). Well, here is some more...
    on 8/3/2009

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