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New addition in virtual earth

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Microsoft has announced new addition in program Virtual Earth on 7 may 2009. It has announced the incorporation of Photosynth with program virtual earth. The incorporation of Photosynth implies the first release that is designed for enabling businesses for utilizing in commercial applications. Microsoft has also launched Photosynth as well as the application that is obtained much fame after it was utilized for capturing the moment Barack Obama inaugurated into office as 44th president of US.

Virtual Earth and its benefits

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Virtual earth (2005) now known as ‘Bing Maps for Enterprise’ is a geospatial Mapping platform. Virtual Earth is geo satellite software developed by Microsoft. The Virtual earth platform consist of three services, like Virtual earth map control, Virtual earth web services along with Map Point web services

The Virtual Earth Map Control includes impressive imagery and enables rich mapping and enterprise-class application development, with an intuitive JavaScript programming model. Virtual Earth Web Services offers static map images, direct map tile access, one-box search functionality, geocoding, reverse geocoding, and routing.

A thousand places to see, On your Desktop!!

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

The Live search maps section of Virtual Earth was updated on an enormous scale in March this year. And Microsoft defined enormous with a data of 21 TB. This means that Microsoft has added information regarding thousands of kilometers that were unknown or little known till now. While browsing there are chances that one may bump into a name that will sound alien and surprise part will be to know that its just on the opposite side of the globe. Microsoft earth is known to have revealed secrets about the neighborhoods. It has provided information on many mystery locations that people would have never known. And now comes this new addition that will tell you about the whole planet that would have been a mystery otherwise.

Virtual Earth- Useful for business needs

Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Want to know the easy way to see the various parts of our world then here is simple solution. It is not case of booking flight or taking the guidance or help of operator. But it is case of using Virtual Earth program. Virtual Earth platform is ready to utilize fort your business needs. It will surely provide you comprehensive support for all your business requirements. It will definitely provide you convincing end user experience. Let us have a look at the information about virtual earth version 4.0-map control. JavaScript is utilized as a map control in program Virtual Earth. Now we will talk about how you cant design a map instance. To design map instance of a virtual earth map control, you need to write little method in JavaScript on your page. This great method can design an instance of the virtual earth map and then placing of that instance on page is possible. Now set up the initial content of the control. After finishing your process of designing an instance then you must call the Load Map () method for displaying the map in HTML control. The Load map method is known without parameters in which you can receive a map, that can show you the USA, zoomed out for showing North American states. You are also able pass in a number of parameters for customizing the starting map. There are some of the parameters that are explained as follows. We will discuss them in detail way. VELatLong: It can represent the center of map and that is defined in MapControl.js. It is a pair of values that can indicate latitude and longitude. Style: It can represent the map style. Not all styles are available in all districts and if a map style is not available, map can with a defaulting road style. Furthermore, when a zoom level is not there the map loads with nearest suitable value. Valid style values are ‘a’ stands for aerial, ‘h’ stands for hybrid, ‘r’ stands for road, and ‘o’ stands for oblique. Find: it is one kind of Boolean value, can state that whether the map view is displayed or not as a fixed map, that user is not able to change. Moreover, if this value is set to false then you can see the zoom, style navigations controls and pan on the map and the user is able to utilize, drag as well drop the scroll wheel for navigating. In addition, when this value is set to true then the map navigation control is not displayed and user is not able to manipulate the map through standard controls.

Now look at how to receive events through map control. Map control provides you events, which include information of the map, which is recently displayed in the control. There is list of events which are received through control by a user. These events include on change map style, which occurs when there is change in map style. Another event is on click, which occurs when any user clicks on map. An error is another event, which occurs if the map zoom ends, and on start zoom occurs if the map zoom begins.

The ability of adding pushpin to a map permits users for indicating specific location on map control. For adding the pushpin, we have to create the function and we have to attach on click event with our map object.

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Use Live Search Maps to Modify your Maps

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Live Search Maps along with offering you different maps that contain useful information also offers the ability to edit the maps and include in them the things that you find useful. Thus, you can mark the path, area, etc on the map. In addition to these marking, you can any time edit these things as per your wish. To edit the maps at the later stages, you can use the options like changing the colors, width, style, and altering the path or the area you have previously marked.

Editing the Colors Live Search Maps

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Once you draw the path or mark the area on the maps, you can edit their colors later on. Sometimes you may feel marking some of the areas of interest on the maps. This area may include some special features that you would like to separate the area from the other part of the map. Live Search Maps offers you the ability to do so. The detailed procedure for the same is explained below.

Editing the Colors Live Search Maps

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

Once you draw the path or mark the area on the maps, you can edit their colors later on. Sometimes you may feel marking some of the areas of interest on the maps. This area may include some special features that you would like to separate the area from the other part of the map. Live Search Maps offers you the ability to do so. The detailed procedure for the same is explained below,

Microsoft virtual Earth’s geographical coverage

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Microsoft Virtual Earth is a geo spatial imagery based software developed at the hear of Microsoft Inc. In the USA. Since its launch on 12/19/05, it has achieved tremendous popularity from different sections of people ranging from students to highly qualified professionals. Microsoft Virtual Earth is now available in most of the countries around the world. It is widely accepted as the market leader in satellite technology. It is user friendly, easy to understand and take only a few minutes to download. No wonder we are everyone's favorite.

NASA and Virtual Earth team up to produce a wonder

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

People visiting the American Capital on May 7 will be the lucky ones. They will not just see Washington D.C but will also get a chance to view the wonder created with two giants come together. Microsoft Virtual Earth and NASA have teamed up yet again and are displayed to the public, a treat for the eyes. From Washington D. C NASA will release a 3D photographic collection of internal as well as external views of the reputed International Space Station, and will display the next Mars rover. The credit for the interaction and display of technology goes to Microsoft Virtual Earth's Photosynth technology that allows the users to form 3D images of places around the globe. Using Microsoft's Photosynth imaging technology, Microsoft and Virtual Earth developed hundreds of photographs.

Using a click and drag interface, the technology has enabled the viewers to zoom in on the details on the Space Station's modules or zoom out to see the global view. Photosynth enable public to come closer to science and technology, encouraging the people to be innovative and creative in their respective lives. The imageries displayed are not stimulations or graphical imageries but are real life photographs taken by astronauts while in orbit. Though you are not at the actual station, the images allows the viewers to go to the ISS in the inner mind.

Microsoft Virtual Earth -features and functionality

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Microsoft Virtual Earth helps create immersive end user functionality, visualize business information and mange resources through its rich features and functionalities.

Here’s a list of some of the features and functions of Virtual Earth

Maps For Mobile Devices: the user can now develop Mobile applications with imagery for mobile devices.

Expanded number of Rooftop Views: Virtual Earth enables the user to view more than 85 Million unique addresses, which is more than 70% of all the rooftops in the U.S.

Bird’s Eye Views and Bird’s Eye Hybrid: these are two unique views of Microsoft Virtual Earth. These provide insight into the real world locations.

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