Next Monday (Sept 15th at 6pm to be exact), VTdotNet is lucky to have Mark Merchant of Microsoft's Virtual Earth Business Unit (who just so happens to reside in Vermont) do a presentation on programming with the Virtual Earth API, services and controls. It was a good opportunity to test out the new ASP...

There are two web apps based on mapping APIs - one uses Google and the other uses Virtual Earth - that I use frequently. It's a long way from what you could do with Virtual Earth when I started dabbling when it first came out. Read more. [A New DevLife Post]...

If it weren't for Neil Roodyn's ViaVirtualEarth site, anyone doing development against Virtual Earth would have been at a huge loss last summer. Eventually Microsoft started doing some webcasts, but still, there was a dearth of help out there directly from Microsoft. I just got a download notification...

I created a scratchpad today using Windows Live Local that has a view of my house (yes my HOUSE outin the boonis in the mountain. You can actually see where my house is (though the photo must be from shortly before it was actually built), the trails into the woods. Anyway, I selected eight points on...

Oh I hate to say this but it's true. When picking up my neice last weekend, her mother and I decided to meet halfway and find a Friendly's which would be amenable to all the kids. So I used Windows Live Local to drill into the general area and then show me all the Friendly's. There was one right in the...

I haven't revamped the code from the Virtual Earth site that I built using the first version of Virtual Earth and it seems to be quite broken now. I noticed the other day looking at someone else's V.E. site that the entire middle section of tiles was missing. The problem happens on my site as well. But...

Here's a cool trick you can do using the new IE Developer Toolbar if you want to find out meta data about a Virtual Earth (Windows Live Local) map. [ Read more... ] [A DevLife post] Don't Forget: www.acehaid.org...

Thom Robbins is presenting a 1/2 day seminar on Programming Virtual Earth on March 1st in Boston and it will also be accessible over Live Meeting. At the end of the session, Thom will announce how you can participate in the a Virtual Earth Mashup and even win an XBOX 360. Thom will also have help from...

Congratulations to the Windows Live Local team on being selected for an Editors Choice Award by PC Magazine!! I had to laugh when I saw the screen shot in the PC Mag article . One of the tags is for Ft. Green Park in Brooklyn. In a former life (my 20's) I lived 1/2 block from that park. (add'l plug for...

MSN Virtual Earth will be renamed Windows Live Local. I guess that it won't be confused with Google Earth's name that way ;-). There have also been some enhancements as reported by the Kelsey Group by way of Dare - better driving directions, Birds Eye imagery and user pushpins are among these. Hmmm no...

I might be speaking at some pennsylvania groups this summer for INETA. I mapped them out on Virtual Earth so I could visualize where they were relative to one another, then it was easy to share the scratchpad with the user group leaders and Nancy Mesquita who is the coordinator so they could see the...

Many of us spent a LOT of time rooting around the damned JS files If it hadn't been for ViaVirtualEarth , I would probably have bagged working with VE. But now, there is an SDK . It's pretty light, but something. And there is a new search control I heard about during PDC. You can get that in the SDK...

I've been fiddling some more with Virtual Earth Ink . I discovered that there are cases where the tiles don't get realigned before going over to the inking interface. In order to realign the tiles, I need to use the map object's SetCenter command and pass in the current lat/long values of the map.That...

If you are planning to program with Virtual Earth , I highly recommend having a JavaScript reference handy! I have definitely been making use of the O'Reilly JavaScript Pocket Ref by David Flanagan though it looks like I'm behind a few editions. www.acehaid.org...

Channel 9 gets the inside scoop on Virtual Earth from the VE team. Watchiing this video really opened my eyes up to the amazing capabilities of this technology. I have barely tapped it in my Virtual Earth does Ink application. There is a website at www.virtualearthinfo.com with a compilation of links...

I have been working with Virtual Earth some more. I wrote recently about the tiles that make up the map image and have made some new discoveries. When you create a new map, the tiles collection has the tiles in the order of their placement in the grid, by column, as opposed to by row, like a <table>...

I have been experimenting with VirtualEarth to understand the structure of the map image. The map image is made up of tiles (map.tiles). It basically builds a grid of image objects. Each quadrant of the grid is a tile and literally points to an image file (png) on the VirtualEarth website. The tile object...

From Via Virtual Earth Test the methods of the Map control I have added this test page to the Gallery that shows methods on the Mapcontrol and how to use them. Now all we need is for someone to do the same thing for the VE.js scripts. Anyone feel like they want to do this? www.acehaid.org...

VirtualEarth is interesting but quite undocumented when it comes to developing against it. Luckily, Neil Roodyn (that's Dr. Neil) has had a great head start with Virtual Earth and has created the Virtual Earth developer center “ViaVirtualEarth”. There are already some articles on getting started and...