Zillow.com, one of the web's premier sites for residential real estate, including finding the unique Zestimate™ price for a home, has recently added bird's eye imagery from the Virtual Earth platform. Today, they are only using bird's eye in a few of...

LoopNet, the #1 commercial real estate service online, recently launched a new map search service built on Virtual Earth. The LoopNet solution utilizes Virtual Earth to provide an autorefreshing query for commercial real estate based on the VE Map Control...

Often I find developers asking questions about what kinds of applications have been built on Virtual Earth, other than the generally mashup oriented stuff on www.ViaVirtualEarth.com . Basically, what commercial reference implementations exist. So, I am...

The folks over at Via Virtual Earth have started up a forum thread on the free-to-use, ad supported "commercial control", trying to get feedback on what you think microsoft should do different or the same as we prepare for future versions. If you have...

As you may have noticed already, as I have gotten a few comments, URLs that used to lead to MapPoint Web Service information on www.microsoft.com now redirect to a site branded as Virtual Earth . What's up? Did we change the name of the MapPoint Web Service...