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Well, it didn’t take long for us to add these features to the already robust set of APIs in the Bing Maps Platform , now did it? In case you’ve been in some analog state without Internet access you should first read, “ Bing Maps Adds Streetside, Enhanced Bird’s Eye, Photosynth...

Feel free to bypass my blog and download Photosynther now . Photosynther is the client software to create your own Photosynth's viewable in the browser. Some of this post may look familiar to you folks who leverage search engine cache, but I've added some Virtual Earth integration to the post so get...

Don't like JavaScript? You want your managed code with the new wave of AJAX maps? Well, the long awaited Virtual Earth ASP .Net Server Control is now available for download as a part of the Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio . Here are some of the features and benefits of the control: Toolbox...

We've officially launched our staging environment which allow you to access Virtual Earth features without incurring transaction costs for hitting production. Plus, we can stage new features allowing you to new stuff and regression test for backwards compatibility. Here's the official communication from...

Last October we released a version of Virtual Earth which included the ability to track and report on transactions (Version 6). While the Virtual Earth interface has thus far been AJAX, we introduced a component that required a non-scripting language such as .Net or Java. And, while we provided an article...

Creating Microsoft Virtual Earth mashups and applications just got a whole lot easier. A group of 11 developers in the Code Plex community teamed up and in just 4 days produced a JavaScript library that generates Intellisense for the Microsoft Virtual Earth 6.0 AJAX library . This new library is being...

So, you want to know what kind of traffic your Virtual Earth application is getting? You want to start licensing Virtual Earth per user? Well, from a technical perspective we've got you covered. Virtual Earth now supports token-based authentication and usage tracking. We've published an article on MSDN...

Since we have Virtual Earth localized in Japanese and have good imagery and street data in Japan, we figured maybe it would be a good idea to convert the Virtual Earth SDK to Japanese too for developers who prefer the local script. Using the localized version of the Virtual Earth map control is pretty...

Our recent change of the consumer site to Windows Live Local broke some of the functionality of the Map Search Control, or Commercial Control. Apparently when we updated the site's URL the redirect to the new URL didn't work for the proxy we wrote, an error that didn't surface in our testing. So, your...

Just quick but important reminder note: Now that Windows Live Local has launched, if you are referencing the v1 of the standard control on the old URL: http://virtualearth.msn.com/js/MapControl.js You should update this to http://dev.virtualearth.net/standard/v1/MapControl.js This will keep your application...