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Is Virtual Earth going to include other regions or countries?

The makers of Virtual Earth are constantly evaluating geographic enhancements. Although it is not possible to comment now on specific countries, the existing geographic imagery and data will be improved by adding new regions and countries.

Is there any difference between Live Search Maps and virtual Earth?

Live Search maps are an online mapping and local search tool and enables users to discover, learn, and explore a particular location. Virtual Earth platform is a set of services giving rich imagery, quality geospatial data and cutting edge technology that helps organizations to visualize data and give immersive experiences to end users

What are important services provided in Virtual Earth platform?

Companies can make use of Virtual Earth platform and take advantage of the services listed below.

Connect with clients: It will keep clients engaged on your organization’s web site. That implies enhanced relationships, increased sales, and more informed customers. Virtual Earth offers an intuitive, immersive mapping experience helping users to find and learn about store locations better.

Manage Resources: To manage mobile assets is important to be successful in a business. So whether it is locating people after a disaster, anticipating inventory deliveries or tracking supplies, virtual earth is extremely useful. Virtual Earth platform provides a way for organizations to track the location of mobile resources by using tools like GPS and RFID.

Visual Business Intelligence: Virtual Earth enables people to layer data on a map and then view the data in meaningful segments. This will definitely improve their business.

Does virtual earth provide rooftop geocoding?

Currently virtual Earth supports rooftop geocoding in United States, China and Japan.

Does Virtual Earth provide support reverse geocoding?

Yes, reverse geocoding is supported by Virtual Earth in United States.

What kind of directions is provided in Virtual Earth?

Virtual Earth provides driving and walking directions.

Does virtual Earth supports traffic based routing?

Yes, the software considers traffic for generating more routes that are efficient for its customers.

For multipoint routing, what is the limit to the number of points?

The recommended number of points is 25. Whatever may be the number of points, the time taken for calculating the route is directly proportional to the distance of entire multipoint route.

Is optimized routing available in Virtual Earth?

No, but in version 6.0, the software routes in order of points.

What is the bird's eye imagery in Virtual Earth platform?

Using this feature, the aerial or road view of the map can be changed to a bird's eye view. At the moment, this feature covers metropolitan areas in United States. As with aerial and road map styles, you can make use of standard navigation methods to move the bird's eye image. You can use (+)PLUS SIGN and (-) HYPHEN keys, use arrow keys on the keyboard or drag and click the map for zooming in and out. Virtual Earth platform provides two zoom levels. You can choose one by clicking the zoom box.

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