July 2006 - Bing Maps Blog

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   Australia in Windows Live Local and Virtual Earth

   07/31/06 by Chris Pendleton | 0 Replies |

   The news is out , here , there and everywhere . Microsoft Virtual Earth and Windows Live Local are live with support for Australia. The developer features include: Geo-coding and parsing for Australian addresses Aerial imagery for major Australian cities (more coverage to come) Maps and routing for major cities and highways/freeways across the country Local search results for Australia and more... The new coverage and features are available immediately for use with the Virtual Earth Map Control in your application. Give it a try, no changes should be needed... The same base map and geo-code data for Australia is live in MapPoint Web Service as well, so customers with hybrid solutions or pure...
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   MindManager and Microsoft Virtual Earth

   07/31/06 by Chris Pendleton | 1 Replies |

   Michael Scherotter over at MindJet just posted a great description of how he integrated Virtual Earth with the MindManager tool to plan a trip. Pretty interesting concept of how different tools can come together to provide a flexible interface for this kind of activity.
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   Grubb & Ellis Selects VE

   07/20/06 by Chris Pendleton | 0 Replies |

   This might sound lately like it is becoming a real estate blog, but I just got wind of this press release from Grubb & Ellis . The applications they have built so far are internally facing (VE is a great way to make brokers more productive, among other BI and visualization benefits), but the search on their public site is powered by the LoopNet/Microsoft Virtual Earth solution .
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   Microsoft Dev Day @ Inman Real Estate Connect

   07/20/06 by Chris Pendleton | 0 Replies |

   Next week, at the Inman Real Estate Connect conference, where you will find Microsoft's Virtual Earth team in presentations, our booth, and around the conference, developers may want to check out the Microsoft Developer Day . Steve Lombardi , PM for the Map Control and Windows Live Local's collections feature, among many other things, and Chandu Thota , Virtual Earth developer/author/blogger, will be among a great list of folks to connect with about your real estate applications.