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February, 2008

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  • NYC Transit Trip Planner

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    Jerry Skaw of the Virtual Earth Public Sector Team details New York City's Transit Trip Planner rollout with Virtual Earth in his blog entry . Also, check out the press release: http://www.mta.info/mta/news/releases/?en=080212-NYCT225 . CP
  • London Executive

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    Ok, so I know our Bird's Eye imagery is cool and all (did I just say that?); but, the London Executive web site makes it looks incredible. I received a comment on one of my blog posts regarding the London Executive PropertyBird site which is exceptionally...
  • NBC Weather Plus

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    NBC Weather Plus has integrated some seriously slick weather tracking data with Microsoft Virtual Earth . The site uses Adobe Flash to render Virtual Earth tiles, then overlays rasterized, opaque weather tiles to visualize weather around the US. In fact...
  • Traffic by Live Search Maps Vista Gadget Returns

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    I've had this sitting in my inbox for a couple weeks, but for those of you who hadn't heard the long awaited return of the Traffic by Live Search Maps Vista Gadget has arrived. Here's the official description, " Don’t get stuck in gridlock or be late...
  • Windermere

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    The Pacific Northwest real estate market search for real estate is now complete. If you want to find a home in the PacNW chances are you will be using Microsoft Virtual Earth to view your locations. I love this battle royale going on up here between John...
  • Yellow Book

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    David Carradine has spoken. Yellow Book is the latest portal to agree to use Microsoft Virtual Earth for their mapping needs. Search by product / service or business name and by location. They use AJAX to determine the location you're typing - which I...
  • California School Finder

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    I had to take a trip down memory lane for this one. I grew up in So Cal and if you've read my blog you know I call San Diego home, but a little known secret is that I actually spent about 10 years in Los Angeles. Not LA proper, but LA County - Santa Clarita...
  • Virtual Earth Version 2 Being Deprecated

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    It's been far too long with way too many versions out there, but I wanted to alert everyone about the deprecation of the Version 2 Virtual Earth API being deprecated on March 31, 2008. So, if you're on V2 you better get cracking on updating to a new version...
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