3d Geology Maps
View geologic maps draped over the topography of the globe--so you can see the interplay between geology and morphology! This site is built on top of the Virtual Earth Map Control. This site overlays geologic maps on the 3D maps, letting you see geology in 3D!
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Adventure Works Resort
A richly interactive social networking site with source code provided by Sharplogic and Microsoft. This site was created for the fictitious Adventure Works resort to demonstrate the ease and power of integrating Mapping, Contacts, LiveID, Alerts, VE and Silverlight into a single user experience.
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Air Force Recruiter Locator
This is a mashup of U.S. Air Force recruiter office locations with a Virtual Earth map.
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Ajax Map Comparison
Map Compare allows you to evaluate which mapping service is best. All three maps are locked together so panning, zooming and changing map types will effect all maps the same.
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AlertNet
Map "crisis hotspots" around the earth and view latest news on each crisis.
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America 24/7
MSN Virtual Earth used to plot photos from the America 24/7 project.
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BC Ferries
This website uses Virtual Earth mapping technologies and real-time GPS location data to display the current locations of all ferryboats in the fleet. Click on the thumbnail map of a specific route to view a larger map with current ship status.
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Burien Streecar Line
Overlay of 1923 map on Virtual Earth using MapCruncher. Shows the history of Seattle Municipal Railway's Division C, the streetcar line that once connected Burien with White Center and Seattle.
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California School Finder
Compare California schools side-by-side in Virtual Earth with the latest school rankings, course offerings and information we all need to know to make great choices for our kids. The information provided on this Web site comes from the California Department of Education.
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Catalist Home Finder
A comprehensive site combining Virtual Earth mapping with real estate data in Southern California. Search for properties meeting specific criteria. Hover over a specific property on the map to reveal address and price.
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Century 21 Real Estate
Real Estate website using Virtual Earth
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City of Miami
The City of Miami is using Virtual Earth mapping software to develop online applications that provide enhanced public safety response, urban planning, and tourism services.
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Coldwell Banker Commercial Property Listings
Search for Commercial properties using Virtual Earth mapping controls.
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College Finder
CollegeFinder from GlobalScholar.com is vertical search for US Colleges and Universities. The site features in-depth information, including tuition cost and retention information, on over seven-thousand schools. Users to the site can also check out a birds eye view of the Colleges. The view is powered by Microsoft Virtual Earth and gives the ability to zoom and move about campus.
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Contoso University
A site demonstrating Live Contacts, Expo, Silverlight and alerts working together in a single view. Everything a university student would need to stay in touch with friends and family. Source available.
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Cyberhomes
Not just another real estate "homes for sale" site, this mashup is a comprehensive Virtual Earth powered research tool to discover regional or individual home sales statistics, neighborhood and school information, and more.
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Dare Obasanjo's Movie Finder
Displays the locations of movie theatres and provides search functionality for session times.
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Deki Wiki
Mindtouch provides the DekiWiki, a popular wiki designed to help users quickly and efficiently create cutting edge mashups.
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Detroit History
This application overlays historical aerial photographs of Detroit over current imagery to demonstrate change over time. The site features aerial imagery from 1949, 52, 56, 61, 76, 81, 97, 2005 and 06.
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Dublin Transportation Office
The Dublin Transportation Office (DTO) is an Irish government agency that provides transportation and land use advice in the greater Dublin area. The DTO website makes extensive use of maps to help Dubliners plan their daily commutes or weekend outings. The site, developed in-house by Peter Cranny and utilizing Virtual Earth, also promotes environmental stewardship. For example, interactive route planners include calculators that automatically compute the CO2 emission reduction realized when a journey is taken on foot or bicycle.
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EasyJet
Chose a destination city, arrival, and departure date and view your choices in a map overlay of the city.
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eBay+Virtual Earth
Puts eBay searches on a MSN Virtual Earth Map. It will try to locate your zip automatically. It works in the USA, UK, France and Germany.
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Elevation Calculator
Using Virtual Earth this site demonstrates how elevation can be estimated by simply clicking a point on a map.
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Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency has a more consumer-friendly data resource thanks to Virtual Earth. Now visitors can access to environmental information associated with facilities and sites across the country.
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eppraisal.com
A real estate site that gives you quick and easy access to information on any property in the US. eppraisal.com data is updated daily and pulls from a database of about 70 million homes. Integrated maps and estimated home valuations.
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ET Online Emmy's
Watch video clips from TV shows nominated for the Emmy awards. Also view content on the nominees, winners, fashion and news.
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Experience Washington
A rich interactive site that helps you find accommodations, events, activities, and things to do when planning a vacation or outing in Washington State. Locations and details of each activity are superimposed on a Virtual Earth map.
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FeedMeme Feed Discovery
Searching for feeds by keywords can often be an unsuccessful process because of the broad vocabulary in use. Instead of a single keyword search, Feed Meme offers a multi-word macro search.
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Find Your Auto
Use a virtual earth map to find automobiles for sale near you on EBAY.
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Flash Earth
Mashup of Google Maps, Virtual Earth and other satellite imagery through a Flash application. Select the mapping service to use and navigate to anywhere in the world or search for a location.
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Florida Movers
Coldwell banker real estate property search website delivered with Virtual Earth.
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Fresh Logic Atlas
A stylish mashup that helps you find information on gas prices, movies, traffic, local events, WiFi locations, driving directions, and more on a Virtual Earth map.
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GeotagIt
This is a mashup that allows you to visualize geotagged resources on a map. Import your del.icio.us posts or Flickr photos, share your collections and read RSS feeds.
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Gloposis
Gloposis network is real-time GPS-GPRS navigation, GPS tracking and Internet position exchange system for Windows PCs and Windows Mobile PocketPC devices. It uses Virtual Earth as map source.
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Goodeu
Upload and share content with your Windows Live Messenger contacts. Users can also browse maps and photos by tags or popularity ranks.
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Group, The Inc.
Northern Colorado real estate site powered by Virtual Earth mapping technology.
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Gym Alliance Fitness Locator
Gym Locator is a Virtual Earth Ajax client for enabling users to locate Gym Alliance fitness clubs. Nice features include the search, direction control, the table below the map which updates depending on the clubs in view and the profile on the right which updates when the user mouseovers the clubs pushpin. If you click through to a specific club it also provides driving directions.
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Harley-Davidson Great Roads Explorer
Combines great motorcycling routes on a map along with route information, trip length, and locations of nearest H-D dealerships and Best Western Hotels.
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Hide and Seek
Hide and Seek is a game for MSN Messenger. One player hides in a MSN Virtual Earth Map and the other has to find him. He can ask 20 questions to help clue-in.
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Horsham Town Website
The Virtual Horsham website combines Virtual Earth with new custom high resolution images for the entire Horsham town centre area. This is believed to be the first time that an entire urban area has had it's Virtual Earth images updated on this scale. The site also integrates Flash to play audio and display images that are streamed on demand from an custom asp.net application. Other data layers are currently in development that will allow qualifying other Horsham websites to add their own data to the map.
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Hydroseek
Hydroseek is an ontology-aided search engine for finding scientific data on water quality and hydrology from approximately 1.9 million sites in the USA. It creates a unified view over databases of agencies such us Geological Survey, Environmental Protection Agency, Texas Commission of Water Quality, Chesapeake Information Management System and individual researchers.
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Interactive weather
This map overlays The Weather Channel's weather information. It provides satellite and radar animations. The information you desire can be filtered and the transparency of the overlay can also be set.
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JiWire
Location tools to find a hotspot anywhere in the world integrated into Windows Live Spaces and Windows Virtual Earth. Get the local weather and traffic reports, news, weather, local search and directions.
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John L. Scott Real Estate
Real estate searching with Virtual Earth technology. Unique "neighborhood wizard" lets you draw the exact boundaries of your search. Hovering over the pushpins opens a window with property photo, price, and link to detailed information.
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Keeping up with the Jones
This Facebook app allows you to connect to Zillow from Facebook. View information about your house and see what your friends houses are worth on a Virtual Earth map.
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KGI Wireless
KGI Wireless are using a combination of MSN Virtual Earth and MapPoint technology to map its wireless towers and associated profiles around the USA.
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Lat49
Lat49 provides an advertising engine based upon map real estate. Participants can generate revenue from their Virtual Earth solutions.
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Learn About the World
View Virtual Earth maps and find information about countries, states, and cities with one mouse click.
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Link At Sheraton
Sheraton’s Link is a virtual and physical lobby lounge space where guests can work, relax and remain connected with friends and family during their travels. It offers an online experience, including free Wi-Fi and Internet-enabled computer stations, to allow guests to email, search the Web, review attractions and more.
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Live Contacts
Maps the addresses of your Windows Live Contacts from Messenger, Mail, etc., using Virtual Earth. From the Windows Live development team.
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LocateA
LocateA turns your Java enabled mobile phone, or your PDA Mobile Phone running Windows in to a personal real time tracking solution, which allows you to track people, employees, lone field workers or children.
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Lodging Options in Buenos Aires
Map of hotels, apartments, hostels and spas in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with links to their websites.
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Long and Foster Real Estate Inc.
Nicely organized interactive real estate site specializing in the mid-Atlantic area of the United States.
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LookLocal
LookLOCAL is a unique online mapping and local search service. View over 6,000 traffic cams, view travel related KML files and import your own, search or get directions, and compare Google Maps, Yahoo Local Maps, and Live Search Maps.
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Map My Fitness
Site developed to share walking and running routes. Routes are presented within Virtual Earth.
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Map your MP
Get to know any British member of Parliament. Select by location, postcode or name. Traversing the UK map with Virtual Earth provides a constituency grid and instant feedback of its local MP. Extra information provides anecdotal quotes and wiki entries for the local area.
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MapCruncher
Very interesting mashup technique from Microsoft Research, MSR. Shows how any type of map image data can be layered on top of a Virtual Earth map. This example with bike trail maps.
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MapMate
MapMate is a new way to update your Facebook status. You can plot your current location and set your status anywhere using Microsoft's Virtual Earth.
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MapSeeing
Visits famous places through Virtual Earth and Google Maps. See Related Flickr photos.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator and SkyConnect Flight Tracking
A Sky Connect Mission Management Unit provides GPS tracking, satellite telephone, and text messaging capabilities in flight. Data is transferred between aircraft and Sky Connect via the 66 low-orbit satellites in the Iridium satellite network. Microsoft requests the data from Sky Connect and the aircraft's most recently reported position is presented to you via Virtual Earth.
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Mr & Mrs Smith Boutique and Luxury Hotels
Utilizing Virtual Earth the boutique hotel guide Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Saab have created an online route planner of the UK’s best road trips featuring Mr. & Mr. Smith’s favorite hotels, restaurants and bars along the way.
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MSNBC Bridge Tracker
Created after the bridge collapse in Minneapolis, this application utilizes Virtual Earth mapping to show the condition and inspection dates for more than 100,000 bridges in the U.S. that are crossed by at least 10,000 vehicles per day. The records come from the latest National Bridge Inventory, as analyzed by msnbc.com.
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Multimap
The site offers street-level maps of the United Kingdom, Europe the United States and much of Asia Pacific; road maps of the world; door-to-door travel directions; aerial photographs; and local information. Multimap also provides white label mapping services for other web sites, including basic mapping, proximity searching, routing, aerial images, and local information. Recently, Multimap has begun to integrate Virtual Earth and Windows Live Messenger.
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MyHome Real Estate Australia
Search for Australian properties with the help of Virtual Earth maps.
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NavDog
Use NavDog.com for finding community events, fairs, carnivals, charity events, sales, promotions, open houses, road side markets and vendors.
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North Yorkshire Mountain Bike Routes
This application displays mountain biking routes in North Yorkshire. It displays both where each route is and the actual route. The site uses Ajax to get a list of points of interest and polylines. In the future users will be able to add their own content.
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ocarto a meta map mashup
Cool way to create and save your own hybrid maps using several mapping APIs. This mashup layers Google, Yahoo, MS Virtual Earth, and Terraserver maps into one interface - similar to the way Photoshop layers work.
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Office Broker
This mashup combines office space search from OfficeBroker.com databases for the US, UK, and 50 other countries with Virtual Earth mapping. Locations of selected properties are shown on a map next to a list of available facilitates and services.
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Party Start
Demonstration mashup showing integration of Windows Live Contacts with Virtual Earth maps. Choose people from you contacts list and invite them to places you select from a map.
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Peculiar Pit Stops
From the nation's largest ball of twine to giant shrubs in the shape of dinosaurs. Stop, take a photograph and wonder how people have so much free time on their hands.
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Raising From Ruin
Rising from Ruin is an on-going MSNBC.com special report chronicling two coastal Mississippi towns, Bay St. Louis and Waveland, as they rebuild after Hurricane Katrina.
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Real Time Vehicle Tracker
This app takes position reports sent to an ASP.NET server and plots them as gradient-colored pushpins. The map automatically refreshes at about the same interval as the position reports coming in. Right-click 2 push-pins and get some distance/speed/time info. Data is archived each day and tracks from other days can be recalled by using the calendar control.
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Redfin
A comprehensive real estate site that incorporates Virtual Earth to find, sell, or buy properties.
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Reuters News
Using Virtual Earth Reuters displays news around the world superimposed on the map of the world.
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Safarimappers
Safarimappers use Virtual Earth maps to map most of the major National Parks, Game Reserves, Private reserves and concession area in Southern Africa and East Africa.
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Sampa
A do-it-yourself website creation and hosting service designed to enable users to easily create sites using web services such as Virtual Earth, Blogger, Flickr, YouTube, Del.icio.us and BlueDot.
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Share My Routes
ShareMyRoutes.com is an experience-sharing website dedicated to outdoor travel. The site features interactive route maps created with Virtual Earth. Routes contain a path (recorded from a GPS, GeoRSS feed, or authored in a suitable application), and may be supplemented with digital photographs, annotations, and descriptions of the journey. Visitors can search or browse a collection of routes, download a route to their GPS, or upload a travel route of their own.
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Sin In Linen Locator
Find your nearest Sin In Linen retail outlet. A great example of using the Virtual Earth technology to link an RSS feed of store locations and then providing more detail through popup windows
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SnOasis
Overlays of development plans on aerial and map images provide a before and after view of a proposed UK winter resort development. This mashup demonstrates how images can be overlaid onto high quality mapping and aerial imagery.
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Speed Traps
Speed Trap, a mashup (Web application hybrid) that combines Microsoft Live Maps and the ability to search for, pinpoint, and review speed traps located anywhere on the planet. The information shared by its members is placed into a database and can be viewed by anyone. Future revisions will allow for updates to Mobile GPS and GPS enabled cell phones.
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Sperry Van Ness
A commercial real estate site that incorporates Virtual Earth to help find apartments, industrial space, retail, office space, and more by location, and other criteria.
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Sportsdo
SportsDo is a sports tracking and logging system that enables athletes to record performance data in real time using their mobile smart phone. When loaded with SportsDo software, the phone can issue visual or vocal performance updates to the athlete, and optionally broadcast the statistics live to friends and family. A complete log of the event can be uploaded for later analysis on the SportsDo web portal. SportsDo displays training routes on detailed 3D maps powered by Virtual Earth.
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Spyk Property Search
This Australian based mashup plots real estate properties. It allows searching based upon postcode, property type, price, bedroom numbers and bathroom numbers.
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Store Locator
Find Tesco store locations on a Virtual Earth map of the UK with an optional satellite image overlay. Once a store is located, hover the mouse over its icon to get directions, or click on the store's name to view its address, phone number, and store hours.
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Sun Safaris
Cape Town, South Africa-based Sunsafaris specializes in non-hunting southern African safaris, vacations and honeymoons. A strong, attractive internet presence is vital to the company’s business. A key element of the site is a large collection of detailed interactive maps covering all destinations the company offers. Site visitors can view locations, routes, camps, and lodging information by zooming into the destination of interest and clicking on relevant icons. The maps are built on Microsoft® Virtual Earth.
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Superbowl 2006
View the Detroit area near Ford Field and learn more about the local sites and facilities with local search.
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SuperPages
Web-based Yellow Pages site for searching businesses, services, driving directions, and more with Virtual Earth.
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Tacky Light Tour
Locate the biggest Christmas light displays in Virtual Earth. Decorators register their display and we provide an interactive mapping experience with custom driving directions.
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Thomas Cook
Each year, over half of the 19 million Thomas Cook customers book their trips online. The new site for Swedish tour operator Ving (one of the Group’s major brands) includes several key components of the Microsoft® Windows Live network of Internet services, including the Live ID identity and authentication system, Live Messenger instant messaging controls and API, and the Virtual Earth mapping platform
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Trayle
Trayle aims to collect travel blogs from travelers around the world. Users of the site can post blogs, or just see what other people had to say, while discovering a new spot.
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TruDat
TruDat is a Mashup that allows you to sort through the data supplied by trulia.com to find the property you want. TruDat also incorporates a images from flickr.com.
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Twisney
A twitter like application for Disneyworld using Virtual Earth mapping to show the location within the parks from where the message is being sent.
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UK commercial property search
The site uses EarthwareProperty a dedicated estate agency mapping service using Microsoft's Virtual Earth.
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UK Job Search
Job seekers can view jobs based on the usual criteria (salary, permanent/temp, location etc.) and see the results by list or on a Virtual Earth map. Clicking on a location reveals the available jobs in that area.
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Ultima 7 map
An explorable Virtual Earth map of the Origin Systems, Inc. game Ultima 7, along with its add-ons and related game, Serpent Isle. I used Exult to extract the map, Virtual Earth to present it, and S3 to host the tiles.
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US Mineral Hypermaps
This is a demonstration of an atlas system for giving smooth, all-in-one-page access to large geographic data sets. It provides clickable icons, geo-plotted via the Virtual Earth v3 API. This application plots various types mines throughout the US, as well as agriculture and industrial areas.
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Vakantieglobe.nl
Dutch site for finding vacation rental properties in Europe. Click on map pins to find detailed information on the paces that interest you.
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Virtual Carnival 2007
Dutch site that superimposes carnival parade routes on a map.
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Virtual Earth 3D Scenes
Uses Virtual Earth 3D to "fly" into a series of locations around the world. The mashup automatically cycles through scenes every 60 seconds. You can also manually click on >> or << at the bottom of the screen to go to the next or previous scene. Use navigation controls to change viewing direction and perspective.
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Virtual Earth and Google Maps
Compare the two mapping systems. As you move around one map the other moves also. This site also contains a search as provided by our very own Dr. Neil.
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Virtual Earth Interactive SDK
The Interactive SDK gives you a new way of learning how to use the Microsoft Virtual Earth map control APIs. Rather than hunting for the correct object and method names, you can find the code you need by choosing the tasks you want to accomplish. The Interactive SDK shows you how the map control works and provides the complete code you need to implement the task on your own page.
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Virtual Earth OSX Dashboard Widget
Virtual Earth, search and location functions at your fingertips in the OS X Tiger Dashboard.
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Virtual India
Virtual India is a research project by Microsoft Research India, in collaboration with the Government of India's Department of Science and Technology, powered by Microsoft Virtual Earth technology. The primary goal of this project is to explore novel and effective ways to collect and disseminate geospatial data and leverage multi-lingual technologies within maps.
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Welcome Wagon
The familiar Welcome Wagon is online. This mashup lets you search for businesses by type or name within a user-specified radius from any location in the U.S. Results are shown as pushpins on a Virtual Earth map alongside a detailed contact list.
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Yellow Pages
Search for and get maps and directions to businesses in your area.
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Zillow Real Estate
Real estate search and mapping mashup provinces regional and local property information
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Zoomatron
Overlay of NOAA nautical charts on top of Virtual Earth maps. Charts can be made translucent to different degrees.
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