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Bing Maps Imagery Release – May 2009 (Introducing Bing Maps World Tour)

This month’s release contains 248,000+ sq. kilometers of new imagery. But not just that. You won’t get a ginormous list of locations but an experience, an experience in the form of the Bing Maps World Tour . The Bing Maps World Tour is hosted on Windows...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2009 11:19 AM by Sunshine

Filed under: Virtual Earth, Maps, Bing
LiveSide Auto News: OnStar to use Virtual Earth; Zune in GM cars

Just announced this morning is the news that OnStar , the General Motors “in vehicle safety and security” subscription service, will soon be using Microsoft’s Virtual Earth in their emergency response system. This means that OnStar operators will...

Published Wed, May 05 2009 11:54 AM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Virtual Earth, Zune
UMapper’s Virtual Earth Game, Improve Your Geographical Skills

Want to game and improve your geographical skills at the same time? Then UMapper ’s Virtual Earth game “ Geodart ” is for you. GeoDart is a geography trivia game that invites users to answer geographical questions by placing answers (locations) on the...

Published Wed, May 05 2009 10:07 AM by Sunshine

Filed under: Virtual Earth
Virtual Earth / PhotoSynth integration announced

Remember back last March when we told you about Virtual Earth/PhotoSynth integration via GeoSynth? A UK blog, PocketLint, posted a story we picked up on the integration, allowing public Photosynths to be embedded in Virtual Earth maps. Well...

Published Thu, May 05 2009 3:32 AM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Virtual Earth, PhotoSynth
Visualizing Swine Flu On Virtual Earth

The Swine Flu, who hasn’t heard of it yet, and who isn’t tracking it? It’s all over the news; tv, sites, the blogosphere and twitter of course. Now you can also track it on Virtual Earth : - Live Search Maps has a collection highlighting reported cases...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2009 5:04 PM by Sunshine

Filed under: Virtual Earth
Virtual Earth Imagery Release, April 2009

This month’s Virtual Earth imagery release is 9+ TB of data, all ortho again , covering over 1 million square kilometers of Earth. There have been new releases and/or updates for the following countries: Albania, Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Bolivia...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2009 3:43 AM by Sunshine

Filed under: Virtual Earth
Happy Earth Day!

Today is Earth Day , a day designated nearly 40 years ago to inspire awareness of and appreciation for our environment. But it isn’t easy to be green, according to this study from MSN . Nearly 70 percent of people said that they would never limit toilet...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2009 5:23 PM by Sunshine

Filed under: Microsoft, MSN, Virtual Earth, Research, windows live search, Earth Day
AT&T Launches Child Locator Service With Virtual Earth

Worried about your child’s whereabouts when he/she isn’t at home? AT&T just launched a service, called FamilyMap , that allows you to follow your child in real time via his/her mobile phone (yep, it does require your child to have a phone). Almost...

Published Sat, Apr 04 2009 5:37 AM by Sunshine

Filed under: Virtual Earth
Virtual Earth API, 3D updates

Last fall Virtual Earth released version 6.2 of their API , including the Virtual Earth AJAX control, and late yesterday it has been updated, according to a blog post on Chris Pendleton’s Virtual Earth Evangelist’s blog . Today we released updates to...

Published Fri, Apr 04 2009 1:09 PM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Virtual Earth, Developer, Live Search Maps, 3D
Virtual Earth Imagery Release, March 2009

Last month only Obliques were added to Virtual Earth , this month it’s solely Ortho, 21TB’s worth! Not a huge release in terms of terabytes, but huge in terms of square kilometers of the world (63 countries are represented). Lots to discover for you on...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2009 1:35 PM by Sunshine

Filed under: Virtual Earth
The City Of Seattle Traveler’s Information Map

After the My Neighbourhood Map , which shows anything you may want to know whilst in the city, the City of Seattle added yet another Virtual Earth app to their site . This time it’s all about transportation. The Traveler’s information Map provides real...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2009 5:47 AM by Sunshine

Filed under: Virtual Earth
GeoSynth: Microsoft’s answer to Google Street View?

Pocket-lint , the “largest independent gadget news and reviews site in the UK”, is reporting today that Microsoft plans to take on Google’s Street View with a “public-led” offering based on PhotoSynth technology and Silverlight...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2009 11:22 AM by Kip Kniskern

Filed under: Virtual Earth, PhotoSynth, Silverlight
Photosynth Map Explore, See The World Through Synths

Nathan of the Photosynth Team created an Explore Map so you can see all geotagged synths. Sightseeing on a Map! Awesome, let’s have a look how this works. When we go to the Explore Map , we start off with this screen: Now that’s a whole lot of synths...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2009 6:08 AM by Sunshine

Filed under: Virtual Earth, PhotoSynth
Virtual Earth Imagery & Map Data Release, February 2009

Another 55TB of map data and imagery has been released. This release contains Obliques (Bird’s Eye) for Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States. For a full list of those, with images, please see Chris Pendleton's post . Besides...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2009 4:42 AM by Sunshine

Filed under: Virtual Earth
Live Maps Belgium launched…in French and Flemish!

After Live Search Maps for The Netherlands launched last month , their southern neighbor Belgium is now following with the release of their local Live Maps. And this is a special release at that. As you may know, in Belgium there are two main languages...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2009 5:12 AM by Sunshine

Filed under: Virtual Earth, Live Maps

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