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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 using Shape Layers Complete control over Mouse and Keyboard Events The same Bird’s Eye Panning and mini map that you see on maps.live.com and A More Accurate Bird's Eye Set Center Method. A smaller download, thanks to a Compressed Map Control An optional Small Navigation Dashboards A reorganized, more straightforward method for Finding Locations and Businesses Developer control over Tile Overfetching More...
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I get asked by developers a lot about how they can leverage the nifty drawing tools that are on Live Search Maps. Well, Johannes Kebeck (Virtual Earth, Technology Specialist) took it upon himself to write the code and document it for you. You can reference the code on the ViaVirtualEarth.com site here: http://www.viavirtualearth.com/Wiki/Drawing-Tool+for+VE+v5.ashx . CP
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Homepages.com has launched their map based search using Virtual Earth. The solution leverages our local search API included within Virtual Earth to show home buyers not only where available properties are, but what local amenities are in the area. The best way to see the full value of Virtual Earth on Homepages.com is to do a search for a home based on a postal code. Once you get results, click the "Map These Properties" button to see them all on a map. The properties you searched for will appear on the map. You'll see a list of local search categories on the left which you can select one by one in order to view them on the map with respect to the properties you're interested in. Pretty slick...
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John L. Scott does it again. JLS has rolled out their "neighborhood wizard" to help users more precisely locate a home on their consumer web site. JLS was the first to roll out a residential real estate site that featured auto-refreshing, draggable maps. Now you can still have that same functionality, but specify a polygonal shape on the map and only results based on your selected ammenity types will appear on the map. Since I'm in the market now, I found this extremely useful since I didn't want to live east of a particular road I was able to specify the area west of that road and no results appeared on the east side - simply fantastic! You can read about it in detail in the press release or...
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Chapters Book Stores is leveraging Virtual Earth to help Harry Potter fans find their bookstores in order to get their hands on a copy of the final novel in the series. As a personal fan of both VE and HP, I'm excited for the final novel so any way to get it is a good one. You can check out the solution here: http://harrypotter.sympatico.msn.ca/StoreLocatorEvents/ . CP
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In Australia the NineMSN team has just launched Goldrush – a big initiative to propel search usage. You can access the game from www.ninemsn.com.au or go direct to www.goldrushgame.com.au The Goldrush game was developed to drive Live Search queries by engaging users in a fun interactive activity that rewarded interaction with big prizes. There are 3,500 prizes up for grabs worth over $250 000! Gamers answer trivia questions, with help from Live Search, to earn the chance to ‘dig’ for prizes on a map of Australia (it consists of a million pixels). Prizes have been randomly placed under certain pixels. The massive prize pool includes a Holden Captiva SUV worth $42,000, $25,000 cash, JVC TVs and...
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Thanks to everyone who attended my Virtual Earth / Live.com Search speaking session and visited me at the Live.com booth @ Tech Ed this year. During my discussion I had promised I would post my app code for converting SOAP XML to JavaScript, so you'll find step-by-step instructions below. I had originally written this on the B2B blog and have since updated it for Version 5 of the API. Specifically, this application will show you how to use MapPoint Web Service's FindNearRoute() method to find the nearest locations with .1 miles of a route then display the results on a Virtual Earth map. Enjoy! An application hitting MapPoint Web Service (MWS) for algorithmic searching (in order to be presented...
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