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The New Reality in Virtual Worlds

Solve real business problems or just have fun creating innovative mash-ups. With Microsoft Virtual Earth, you can develop immersive experiences based on high-resolution map detail, precision aerial imagery, bird’s eye views, and comprehensive 3D city models that bring location-based information to life.

Virtual Earth is an integrated set of services that enables you to develop dynamic online experiences through maps and rich geospatial imagery. Develop rich functionality with customized content layers and map controls. And benefit from extensive development tools including online support through the Microsoft Developer Network.

 

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Mapping Earthquakes in China

The Live Search Maps team in China has created a collection rendering all of the earthquakes in China. We hope this collection of information will provide some additional information about events that are taking place, so those of you who are interested can follow along using a map-based interface. China Tomorrow Education Foundation (CTEF) is accepting donations online or by check to bring much....

Worldwide Telescope Now Available!

The long awaited Microsoft Worldwide Telescope is now available for download! Start exploring the galaxy, the universe and yes, even the Virtual Earth - well, it is a planet you know, so why wouldn't it be included? This tool is absolutely sick and will be the next "must have" application for those late nights under the stars - perfect timing for summer! View other user's collections; explore the....

Integrating Virtual Earth Maps and Excel 2007

About a month ago, Google released integration between Google Earth and Google Spreadsheets. Then, they release Google Spreadsheet Mapper to make it official. Very cool idea. We had native integration between MapPoint 200x and Microsoft Office Excel, but no one had done much to pull Virtual Earth and Excel together. Actually, IDV Solutions', Ian Clemens wrote "Connecting Excel Spreadsheets and Vir....

Zillow.com

Zillow.com has been using Virtual Earth for some time now and, in fact, was one of our first customers to integrate and go live with the Virtual Earth platform on their site - just Bird's Eye, though. They were hosting their own repository of imagery, but will now begin enjoying the cost savings of using Virtual Earth with fresh map data, imagery and perhaps a little 3D integration....well, they....

Version 6.0 to 6.1 Auto-Upgrade Alert & V 3-5 Deprecation Reminder

An alert for you Version 6 API customers out there. We're going to auto-upgrade all Version 6 users to Version 6.1 on June 26, 2008. This will effectively combine Version 6 and 6.1. You don't have to do anything; unless, of course, you've downloaded the control and modified the guts of it. Then, you might want to do some proactive investigation into Version 6.1. The good news is that Version 6.1 i....