January 2006 - Bing Maps Blog

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   Old Virtual Earth Tile Servers Going Away February 12th

   01/19/06 by Chris Pendleton | 4 Replies |

   When we transitioned to Windows Live Local we implemented new servers for the tiles for vector, ortho, and other imagery sources. This new setup is more scalable and better acommodates the kinds of traffic we need to handle for our own site and for our commercial customers and mashup builders. Until now, we have kept the old tile servers running to keep our v1 mashups running. But, alas, the time is approaching when we have to recover those servers and move on. Commercial Control v1: We have updated the commercial control to reference the new tile sets. If you are referencing the commercial/v1 control on dev.virtualearth.net , your app is already updated and no changes are needed. Because we...
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   Chandu's Book

   01/19/06 by Chris Pendleton | 0 Replies |

   The blog took a break for the holidays, but I (Alex Daley) am back and will be posting more regularly again. While we were off, Chandu Thota 's book, Programming MapPoint in .NET was published. It is a great book for programmer's interested in doing location and mapping solutions and covers MapPoint, the MapPoint Web Service, and even has a chapter on the Virtual Earth Map Control. Programming MapPoint in .NET is available for purchase at Amazon.com and other booksellers. There is more information on the book's support site as well: http://www.programmingmappoint.net/ .