Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
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SQL Server 2008 + Virtual Earth = Simple GIS
Marc Schweigert is trying to replace me as the Virtual Earth Technical Evangelist. I kid, I kid! He...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 07/18/2008
Introduction to Spatial Coordinate Systems
Isaac Kunen from the SQL Server team published an outstanding MSDN article entitled,...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 07/18/2008
Limiting Microsoft Virtual Earth Tile Downloads to the Client
There are a couple ways to improve performance in when using Microsoft Virtual Earth. One is to...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 07/16/2008
Adding Mapping Capabilities to your Applications with Microsoft Virtual Earth and ASP.NET AJAX (Video)
Marc Schweigert, is at it again. Check out his 2 latest videos showing you how to add Virtual Earth...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 07/16/2008
Enable Virtual Earth Inertia
Inertia is that cool spinning of the globe effect in Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. Well, it's actually...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 07/15/2008
Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2008
Virtual Earth will be making a cameo at the Inman Real Estate Connect Conference in San Francisco...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 07/14/2008
MapPoint 2009 / Streets & Trips 2009
It's official! We're releasing an update to the desktop products MapPoint 2009 (Desktop Business...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 07/14/2008
Weather Central and Virtual Earth on the iPhone
Tomorrow, Weather Central is launching their new MyWeather application for the iPhone and it is...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 07/10/2008
Prime Card Map
The Prime Card Map mashup has been around a while, but it needs some love because if you have a...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 07/09/2008
ESRI ArcGIS JavaScript Extension for Virtual Earth
ESRI just publicly released their a new version of their ArcGIS JavaScript Extension...using Virtual...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 07/09/2008
Change Virtual Earth Background Color
I recently got pinged about how to change the background color of the DIV element for a Virtual...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 07/09/2008
Virtual Earth Application Upgrade Testing with Fiddler
With the imminent deprecation of Virtual Earth Versions 3, 4 and 5 (August 31, 2008) I thought it...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 07/09/2008
Entergy
Now powering parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas Entergy has gone live with their...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 07/07/2008
Mapping Balloon Travel Patterns
Richard Jones at Binary Refinery pinged me about this fun thing to do / scientific experiment with...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 07/07/2008
Ask Maps Now Using Virtual Earth
Ask.com has migrated off of their mapping platform and onto Microsoft's Virtual Earth platform. If...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 07/01/2008
ESRI Shapefile Layers on a Virtual Earth Map
Juan DoNeblo has the skinny on rendering your ESRI .shp files on Virtual Earth. This is a fantastic...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/27/2008
Microsoft Environment Group
"Innovating to Improve the Planet." That's the mantra of the Microsoft Environment Group....
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/26/2008
Virtual Earth and Live Search Maps Vintage Educational Videos
Catherine Heller and I did these videos last year for Channel 10 and for some reason I never found...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/26/2008
Virtual Earth and WPF (Code Samples)
Marc Schweigert wrote a great blog post and provided some code samples for an application he wrote...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/25/2008
3D Models with Virtual Earth-3DVia
Perhaps you know that Virtual Earth-3DVia by Dassault Systems is our software for creating models in...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/23/2008
Publish Your Aerial Photography to Virtual Earth
We're just starting a new program called "GoVE" which enables municipalities, state and...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/23/2008
UK Celebrity Spotter
The MSN Entertainment Team in The UK rolled their Celebrity Spotter out a bit ago, but has been...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/23/2008
Photo Geotagging on Surface with Virtual Earth
Devin Coldewey has a great write-up on some new things the Surface team rolled out including their...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/19/2008
Virtual Earth Staging Environment
We've officially launched our staging environment which allow you to access Virtual Earth features...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/19/2008
Lots of Virtual Earth and Silverlight Development Outside of Microsoft
I'm seeing lots of Virtual Earth integration in Silverlight light. And, I have to say I LOVE IT....
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/18/2008
Virtual Earth and WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is an incredible new visualization technology from Microsoft...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/17/2008
MSNBC Maps Midwest Floods with Virtual Earth
MSNBC published a Virtual Earth map highlighting points along the Mississippi River (and one in...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/17/2008
Central Florida News 13
Tim Henderson (Virtual Earth Solution Specialist, South East US) sent me this video of a Central...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/16/2008
Tour de Korea - Japan 2008
Virtual Earth Blog Tags: Enterprise/Government Solutions I found the Tour de Korea - Japan 2008...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/16/2008
Overcoming Proxy Issues with Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D
Every now and again I get pinged by someone behind a firewall or proxy server that claims they can't...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/13/2008
Virtual Earth Auto-Upgrade Postponed
I've been continuing to keep you updated on the imminent deprecation and auto-upgrade of Virtual...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/13/2008
Virtual Earth Featured on CNN
A couple days ago, CNN was broadcasting news about the horrific weather in the Midwest. Well, it...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/12/2008
Virtual Earth WAP Maps
Yesterday's demonstration of Loopt's social networking application on the iPhone with Virtual Earth...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/12/2008
Virtual Earth and iPhone
Who says Google gets all the love from Apple's iPhone? If you saw or read about the introduction of...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/10/2008
Virtual Earth and OGC WMS
Check out the new Virtual Earth map style using topographical maps. Ha, gotcha! I should've saved...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/04/2008
Humanitarian Information Centre for Myanmar
In the wake of devastation in Myanmar, the HIC for Myanmar has partnered with IDV Solutions to...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/04/2008
Driving Retail Profit with Visualization Technology
I wanted to bump up the promotion of an upcoming web cast, "Driving Retail Profit with Visualization...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/03/2008
Realcomm Conference
Next week RealComm kicks off in San Diego and I have a presentation as a part of the Microsoft...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 06/02/2008