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Virtual Earth Articles - Finding Local Automobiles using Location and Time

Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Video about a specialized use of Virtual Earth

Virtual Earth Articles - Visualising Personnel Locations w WPF and VE

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Just when the world seems to be shrinking, with the rapid speed of travel, and even faster communication, there seem to be an increasing number of threats to personnel safety for corporate travellers. Companies and their employees need to be fully aware of the risks in each area of the world, or where to turn if something goes wrong. Blue CRM (www.bluecrm.co.uk) provide a risk analysis and personnel tracking service via an application installed onto mobile phones that transmits GPS locations b

Virtual Earth Articles - VE Silverlight - Lots of (Multi)Polygons

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Virtual Earth Articles - Integration of VE with Project Professional

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Virtual Earth Articles - VE Maps using Georss and Pushpins

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Use Virtual Earth Maps in your application like Live Maps. Users create Pushpins and they could save it back to database. A GeoRss is generated on the fly to display the pushpins on User Login.

Virtual Earth Articles - Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Virtual Earth Articles - Include Wikipedia POIs in your Virtual Earth Map

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Several websites offer their users the possibility to show Wikipedia articles on their map. In most cases this feature is an easy way to add value to your map. In this tutorial I am showing you how you can use the free Wikipedia webservices to include Wikipedia Points of Interest in your own VEMap.

Virtual Earth Articles - Creating Routes in SQL Server 2008 using VE

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Virtual Earth Articles - Loading Data from Server to VE Using Web Services

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Virtual Earth Articles - Implementing an Interactive Map Control w/VE & WPF

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:11:39 GMT

Implementing an Interactive Map Control with Virtual Earth and WPF

Virtual Earth Articles - FAQ

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:51:10 GMT

Virtual Earth Articles - Who's Online?: A Virtual Earth And User Session Mashup in Asp.Net.

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Jason Witty
A tutorial for implementing a modal popup window on your web site which will display a Microsoft Virtual Earth map with pinpoints on the locations of every

Virtual Earth Articles - Client Side Clustering

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Richard Brundritt
This article explains how to implement clustering without having make use of a server.

Virtual Earth Articles - Integrating MapPoint Web Service with Virtual Earth 6

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Richard Brundritt
MapPoint has many powerful back-end functionalities that many users would like to have in Virtual Earth. This article shows you how to integrate MapPoi

Virtual Earth Articles - Invoking server side code using AJAX and .ashx handlers Part 2

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Derek Chan
In part 2 of this series, Derek Chan shows how to integrate the Mappoint Web Service platform on a Virtual Earth map.

Virtual Earth Articles - Expanding Clustered Pins in Virtual Earth 6

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Robert McGrath
This article implements one method of extending John OBriens 'Clustering' articles by allowing you to expand a clustered pin to show the individual pin

Virtual Earth Articles - Northwind Meets Virtual Earth - Generate VE Maps with LINQ

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Beth Massi
With Visual Basic 9 and LINQ you can easily create XML from multiple data sources including relational data, other XML sources or any other queryable object. What if we wanted to display all our customers in the Northwind database on a map generated by Microsoft Virtual Earth?

Virtual Earth Articles - WiiEarth - Wiimote Interface for Virtual Earth

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Brian Peak
In this article, Brian Peek will demonstrate how to use a Nintendo Wii Remote (Wiimote) as a controller for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D.

Virtual Earth Articles - Invoking server side code using AJAX and .ashx handlers

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Derek Chan
The purpose of this article is to help beginners who may have experience using the Virtual Earth API but have no knowledge of how to move from using client side JavaScript to invoking server side backend using AJAX and .ashx handlers.

Virtual Earth Articles - Virtual Earth and SQL 2008 Spatial, a first impression

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

John O'Brien
SQL Server 2008 is scheduled for release early next year. This article gives a first impression on the CTP5 release, the first release available for p

Virtual Earth Articles - What's new in Version 6 Routing

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Derek Chan
VE6 released a new multi-point routing engine and customizable options that gives you full control over generated routes. The aim of this article will be to help developers who have experience with VE routing and want a comprehensive guide to the new VE6 routing features.

Virtual Earth Articles - Getting started with Virtual Earth Mashups: showing current weather conditions on a map

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Marco Anastasi
In this article we'll see how easy it is to use Virtual Earth SDK to produce a simple mashup, using web services that provide information in JSON format. We'll use data retrieved from a JSON web service to show weather icons and up-to-date weather information on a specific area selected on the map.

Virtual Earth Articles - Adding Verbs to the Virtual Earth InfoBox

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Darren Neimke
Virtual Earth supplies us with an API for working with locations offering features ranging from zooming through to locational push pins that can be added to the mapping interface to mark the location of user-added places. The Virtual Earth map also offers rich tooltips in the form of an InfoBox which is used to display information about pins when a user hovers their over them. However, out of the box there is no API for the InfoBox to control over the behavior

Virtual Earth Articles - Printing in Virtual Earth

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

John O'Brien
The Virtual Earth map is a complex set of DOM elements layered together to produce the interactive experience you are familiar with. Although the map is used as an interactive experience a very common request is "how do I print the map". Lets see how.

Virtual Earth Articles - Yahoo Traffic on Virtual Earth

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Gfw
Gfw talks about his code that integrates Yahoo Traffic with Virtual Earth. The full source code is downloadable. The article explains how to set up the project, get your API keys and details the structure of the sample. View a sample of Yahoo Traffic on VE in operation on Gfw's own site.

Virtual Earth Articles - Clustering Virtual Earth 6. Performance, throttling and PNG icons

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

John OBrien
This article is part four in a series that explores the next generation clustering techniques for Virtual Earth.
In this article we upgrade to Virtual Earth 6, making use of the bulk addition of shapes, introduce some throttling logic to improve performance and consider PNG icons.

Virtual Earth Articles - Whats new in Version 6

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

John O'Brien
The version 6 update of the Virtual Earth API builds on the existing API adding new functionality, new interface options and support for the Safari web browser. This article explains the changes.

Virtual Earth Articles - Getting Started with Version 6

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

MSDN
Welcome to Virtual Earth 6. This guide will run through the basic concepts and JavaScript code required to get started with the API

Virtual Earth Articles - Creating your first 3D model

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

John O'Brien
In this video we take a first look at the new 3D modeling in Virtual Earth and walk you through building a house and publishing to local.live.com.

Virtual Earth Articles - Create a 3D tour on local.live.com

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

John O'Brien
In this video we quickly look at how you can create a 3D tour or both an imported 3D model and a saved collectionon local.live.com

Virtual Earth Articles - Accessing Remote GeoRSS from VE

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Mike McDougall
The Virtual Earth API requires that all GeoRSS xml be local when loading layers. To get around this limitation and load GeoRSS layers from external domains you can use a web handler that acts as a proxy and retrieves the external xml.

Virtual Earth Articles - Loading Custom Icons using a GeoRSS Feed (V5)

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Derek Chan
When loading a GeoRSS feed using the V5 sample code, you will notice that the VE default pushpin will be used as the pushpin icon for all the locations. In this article, we will cover how to load your own custom icons by modifying the GeoRSS Feed and by manipulating some basic knowledge of VEShapeLayers and VEShapes.

Virtual Earth Articles - Getting Started with V3 of the API (Part 2)

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:40:04 GMT

In the first part of this article you learned how to add and use the version 3 Virtual Earth map control in your own web page. In this article you will discover how to use some of the other controls that make up the Virtual Earth product.

Virtual Earth Articles - Upgrading Where Was Dr. Neil to the Virtual Earth Beta Version 3

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:40:04 GMT

Over the last 8 months my Where Was Dr. Neil page has proved to be very popular, I use a link to it as an email footer and my friends and family can always find out where I have been.

Virtual Earth Articles - Creating a Virtual Earth plugin for NASA's WorldWind

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:40:04 GMT

This article will explain how to create a plugin for NASA WorldWind that will incorporate Virtual Earth's data. The benefit for WW is that VE provides a great source for maps with multiple views (road, aerial, hybrid). The benefit for VE is that WW brings the maps into a 3D world with terrain data and many other plugins for overlaying other data sources.

Virtual Earth Articles - Tracert Map

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:40:04 GMT

The tracert tool displays the various IP Addresses in the route of a network packet as it travels to a destination IP address from a source. In the tool presented in this article, I combine the tracert component, technology to geo-locate based on IP address from HostIP.info and the Virtual Earth API to map the locations of various IP addresses that fall in the route of a network packet when it travels to a user provided destination IP address.

Virtual Earth Articles - Roll Your Own Tile Server

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:40:04 GMT

Microsoft Virtual Earth brings a whole new dimension to browser-based mapping, but it's possible to go well beyond the supplied API and get the same rich interaction with other kinds of maps, charts and graphical data. This article explains how the tile server protocol works and how to re-point the Virtual Earth control at your own tile server.

Virtual Earth Articles - Integrating Real-time Traffic Information

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:40:04 GMT

In the United States Windows Live Local already provides real-time traffic. The data comes from Traffic.com and is available in several Metropolitan Areas. The implementation in Windows Live Local is very nice and shows the consequences of traffic incidents and construction sites as colour-coded overlay for both sides of the street. Unfortunately we don't have these nice overlays outside the US and even if he had, we couldn't use them in a Virtual Earth custom application. So I was looking for a

Virtual Earth Articles - Clustering

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:40:04 GMT

So you have a million houses, festivals or gnomes you want to display on VE, but when you display them all at once it is messy and slow. Why not try clustering them?

Virtual Earth Articles - The building of mygeoland.com

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:40:04 GMT

Mygeoland.com is a minimalist location search for Australia. By offloading everything to the power of Virtual Earth it provides a simple, fast and fun way to find a street, suburb or place in Australia. In this article I explain how simple it really is as we build the site from the ground up with a few div tags and a handful of JavaScript. I will then touch on some really simply ways we can optimise such a site using free third party tools and server options.

Virtual Earth Articles - Clustering Virtual Earth with MS AJAX and C#

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:40:04 GMT

This article explores the next generation clustering techniques for Virtual Earth. We migrate to the newly release ASP.NET AJAX and migrate from vb.net to C#, we incorporate encoding of pin locations and use the power of popup content on demand to vastly reduce our data sent to the client and change our architecture significantly.

Virtual Earth Articles - Accessing WMS from Virtual Earth

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:40:04 GMT

The Web Mapping Server (WMS) protocol was developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as a standard for accessing maps over the Web. Microsoft Virtual Earth provides the ability to overlay your own maps and charts using MapCruncher and custom tile servers but does not yet support WMS directly. This article explains how to build a gateway that allows you to include WMS in your Virtual Earth mash-ups.

Virtual Earth Articles - Virtual Earth 5 Custom Info box

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:40:04 GMT

With the release of Version 5 of Virtual Earth we have been given the ability to have more control of the now officially named “info box” also known as the “pin popup” or “ero popup”. This Article explores how to do this and a few of the issues still remaining.

Virtual Earth Articles - Clustering Virtual Earth on Version 5

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:40:04 GMT

This article is part three in a series that explores the next generation clustering techniques for Virtual Earth. In this article I focus on upgrading to Virtual Earth 5 and using the latest Object Orientated approach to Javascript from ASP.NET AJAX. I show I better way to design your Javascript and introduce a shape differential to only add and remove shapes as required to the map.

Virtual Earth Articles - Customizing your own Mini-Map

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:40:04 GMT

The Virtual Earth 5.0 API includes a mini-map, which allows you to switch between road and hybrid display styles and shows you a zoomed out version of your current view. The purpose of the mini-map is to show you where the specific area that you are looking at is located within a larger geographic region (e.g. where a particular city is located within a state). In this article Derek show how to replace and customise your own Mini Map.

Virtual Earth Articles - Free reverse geocoding

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:40:04 GMT

In this article Mo Majad shows how to impliment reverse geocoding in Virtual Earth. Reverse geocoding is the process where a latitude and longitude pair is used to calculate the physical address, this service is not part of virtual earth and is one of the most requested features.

Virtual Earth Articles - Browser Debugging for Virtual Earth

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:40:04 GMT

Tracing program execution and debugging code are two of the major challenges of developing JavaScript applications. These challenges are especially apparent in Virtual Earth, which is essentially a large obfuscated JavaScript library with limited documentation on available methods and no documentation on how the backend API works. An additional challenge when debugging Virtual Earth applications is deciphering all the CSS classes and HTML elements applied in order to display the Virtual Earth ma

Virtual Earth Articles - Customizing Route Pushpins in V5

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:40:04 GMT

Using Virtual Earth version 5.0, you can create driving routes with automatically generated pushpins along the route that contain the driving itinerary inside the pushpin bubbles. After a VEMap.GetRoute call is made in Version 5.0, a VERoute object is returned. The VERoute has itinerary directions but has no information as to the co-ordinate of the route pushpins and no access to their InfoBox descriptions. This article will discuss how to manipulate these pushpins and generate your own versi

Virtual Earth Articles - Use multiple instances of Virtual Earth V5

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:40:04 GMT

One possible application of Virtual Earth, other than the classic application of one instance, is the use of multiple instances of VE, inside one single page. With the last release of VE, Microsoft has introduced a new functionality about mouse and keyboard events. Specifically, you can use VEMap.AttachEvent Method, to synchronize one or more instance of VE with one principal instance.

Virtual Earth Articles - Fun with IE Image Filters and Virtual Earth

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:40:04 GMT

Internet Explorer offers several filters that can be applied in CSS to images. This Article is a fun look at how some different effects can be applied to Virtual Earth.