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For integrating customer identification feature of virtual Earth platform into the web based application, you will have to use VE platform credentials for requesting a token. The token has encrypted information including VE developer account ID and IP address of end client. Token is valid only for the duration that is specified in initial request, starting from time token request is made from the server. You will have to set this token in map control instance loaded into client's browser. All requests that are made to VE from the application are then recognized as requests. VE platform then logs these requests and you can see VE platform reports on VE platform customer services site.

One of the main reasons of building your own VE application is to successfully display specific data on the map. Virtual Earth has 3 primary shapes that you can use to present information. They are polygons, pushpins and polylines. All 3 types of shape are an inseparable part of same VEShape class. You can access all the shape's properties through set and get methods.

In addition to adding your own listing you can also use it for searching for businesses people, etc. In the same way, you can also search for collections created by other users. Most times users add very useful information about the places, which they know, or they live. They may also photo, etc.

therefore they can be very interesting as well informative. Even you can create your collections which other users will view.

The procedure for searching for businesses, locations, people, or collections on Live Search Maps is given below.

a) Open the Live Search Maps website.

Explore collections: With this feature, you can explore all the collections available for a particular area like a town, city, etc. This is a very useful feature as it provides you all the collections related to the area on the screen. Therefore, you can get additional information about the place, which you are exploring, with this feature. Exploring the collections is very simple. It is given below.

a) Open the Live Search Maps website.

b) On the website go the tool bar and there you would find the option collections. When you click on this option, you get further options from which you can choose the option to explore collections.

Of the two options, if you choose to remove you as the administrator for that listing, you would b e dissociated with that listing. The listing will continue to be there on the Local Listing Center; however, you will not be able access and manage it. For doing so, you would need to go through the PIN verification once more.

When you have chosen the option that you want, click remove once again and the listing would be removed.

Note:

It may take up to 48 hours for listing to be removed from Local Listing Center. Until then it will keep on appearing at the Local Listing Center.

When you have done this you can click next to continue further.

Choosing categories for your business

a) Go to the “All categories” tab, and there you can choose the categories you want. You can choose more than one categories.

Alternatively, you can make use of the search box provided. Just enter an appropriate keyword for your business category and press the search button. You will get a results list. From this list, you can choose the categories you want.

b) If you choose more than one categories you can arrange them in a preference order according to your choice.

If you do not get any listings on the screen when you click the option to check your listing, click continue.

a) Then you would need to sign in using Windows Live ID to continue. So sign in.

b) Then the next section is for filling up your contact information. Fill up the contact information at which you would like to be contacted.

c) Then the next section is the section for filling up the basic information. In this section, fill up your correct and genuine basic information.

This article describes how we can upgrade out virtual earth application from earlier versions of the map control into the recent version. There are two methods for doing this, which are given below:

Convert previous virtual earth versions to virtual earth 6.1 and Convert from virtual earth 5 to virtual earth 6.1.

Convert previous virtual earth versions to virtual earth 6.1: There are important changes in every release of the virtual earth map control. If we compare the latest version of map control with previous map control then the latest version provides you much functionality than other kinds of map control. Now we will discuss what kinds of changes are needed for migrating from map control versions 2, 3, 4, and 5, into map control version 6.1.

The Virtual Earth Map Control SDK Version 6.1 is a Java script control. It consists of the methods, objects and events that you require for displaying the maps powered by Virtual Earth on your website. Use the Virtual Earth Map Control of get a walk through to help yourself to get started with the help of the map control.

There are numerous ways of integrating the Virtual Earth map control features in your own application. Here you are also permitted to build your own tile server. Though, the Virtual Earth maps give you the best map and aerial coverage of most of the areas, even then you have the authority on the quality and availability of the information for your own requirements. Many times serving this data to the users may become a challenging task, even if you have engineering plans, advanced imagery or transportation maps. But, thanks, to the Virtual Earth’s tile layers. You can take advantage of it for making an imagery server that fully coordinates with the navigation data, tools and methods build in the Virtual Earth.