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...