The following imagery was added to Virtual Earth (and Live Search Maps) today. Can you say 11.5 terabytes of new imagery data? Hi-res Orthos (using the UltraCam camera) Canadian Areas... • Toronto US areas... • Savannah, GA • SaintPaul, MN • Queens, NY • Queens, NY • Tampa, FL • Yonkers/Bronx, NY • Cape Coral, FL • St. Petersburg Beach, FL • Minneapolis, MN UK areas... • Cardiff • North Hampton • Gloucester • Bristol • Plymouth • Eastbourne • Wolverhampton • Swindon Hi-res orthos from GlobeXplorer/Digital Globe • Kansas City/Metro, MO • Greenville, SC • South Collier County, FL • Richmond, VA • Norfolk, VA • Chicago, IL • Phoenix, AZ • Phoenix/Metro, AZ • Casa Grande, AZ • Tampa/St. Petersburg...
I'll be doing a web cast covering the technicalities for Virtual Earth, Version 5. It's a Level 200 course and should last about an hour with time at the end for Q&A. It's on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 @ 10AM PDT. Here's the description: Join this briefing to learn about the new features and functionality in latest release of the Virtual Earth Platform, v5, which was released in April. This briefing builds upon information conveyed in the Virtual Earth Platform and Data Visualization briefing, which should be viewed prior to this briefing for anyone unfamiliar with the basic architecture and functionality of the Virtual Earth Platform. You can register for the web cast here . CP
I'll be working the booth at the Maker Faire this weekend in San Mateo, CA. I'll be showing some cool sites that are using VE, showing off some coding and highlighting our consumer site features. Stop by and chew the fat with me.
I'll be working the booth at Where 2.0 and running the " Going Deep with Virtual Earth " session of "Bird's of a Feather." You'll want to get there early for Erik Jorgensen 's session called, " Building out a 3D World. " Also, see Stephen Lawler talk in the interactive discussion, " 3D Data: Platforms for Real World Virtual World Interaction. " We look forward to a great, interactive show so please stop by and see us. CP
Priceline.com just rolled out a new way to visualize locations on a map using Virtual Earth. Do a search for a hotel and under the "Area Map" tab you will see your results on a Virtual Earth map. The map includes a mini-map in the upper right hand corner for better context when zoomed close to street level. Priceline build a custom navigation and zoom bars and links to switch map style, reset the map or print the current map. The borders of the map also allow for navigating the map directionally. Priceline uses custom pushpins with rollovers containing links to additional details, a picture of the hotel, a hotel star rating and a link to the reservation system. There are some things they could...
RealEstatePlus.ca just launched their site using Virtual Earth. To try it out, enter postal code "M6S 4H7" in the search box. Hover over a listing on the map and select “View Demographics” in the pop-up. You get tons of demographic data about that neighborhood plus 8 layers of POI data. Notice how the neighborhood is now outlined with a green vector line. Drag the map and the adjacent neighborhoods get drawn on the map, the listings get updated to the new view and the demographics update immediately (zoom back a bit to see the entire polygon for each neighborhood). You can license Virtual Earth for your site by e-mailing us at maplic@microsoft.com .
Mark Merchant - Virtual Earth Technology Specialist for the East Coast - will be presenting on the Russ and Joe Developer Show on Wednesday May 16. Mark will cover how to build applications with Virtual Earth and provide an under the covers look at Virtual Earth. Check out the event site for more information: http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032340720%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams...
Tyler Davey from Infusion Development will be providing a business (level 100) overview of Virtual Earth May 7 @ 1PM PDT. Follow this link to register for this web cast.
Tonight is the night of the big mashup camp for all you late night campers. It will be @ The Venetian in the Tuscana Room 3701 (3rd Floor) from 8P - 2A. For those of you unlucky enough to not be here, fear not. You can have access to the Virtual Earth Version 5 lab I wrote for MIX. I've pasted it below for your coding pleasure. It's fairly simple, but highlights the core changes in Version 5 around the VEShape Class and additional GeoRSS support (now supporting Lines and Polygons). Enjoy! Microsoft ® Virtual Earth ™ Hands-On-Lab Virtual Earth Mash-up - Mix 2007 Creating a Microsoft Virtual Earth Application Information in this document, including URL and other Internet Web site references, is...
