Microsoft Virtual Earth -features and functionality
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.
3D Imagery: Virtual earth creates very realistic 3D views of the buildings and landscapes.
Geocoding and Reverse Geocoding: virtual earth lets the users navigate to exact locations using the latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates. This happens through the integration of multiple geocoders. Virtual earth provides the users with the most relevant and accurate results.
International geocoding: using Virtual Earth the user can find international addresses with more precision.
Localized Maps and Directions: the users can get localized driving or waling directions in 15 languages through Virtual Earth. And The localized maps for Western Europe can be viewed in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Italian.
Extended International Parsing: on using Virtual earth users experience better match rates for addresses in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Puerto Rico.
Near Matching: In Virtual earth users can find locations using alternate and similar spellings.
New Virtual earth Web Services: new Virtual Earth Web Services API, offers the user with static map images, direct map tile access, one-box search functionality, geocoding, reverse geocoding, and routing.
Pushpin Clustering: Virtual earth provides the customers with the ability to zoom in to visualize a cluster of points.
Land Mark based Routing: Virtual earth provides the users in U.S and Canada with the directions using familiar landmarks as gas stations and fast food restaurants.
Traffic Reports: by using Virtual earth users can avoid traffic jams also. Virtual earth provides traffic reports that overlay the Virtual earth map with color coded traffic flow visuals above the roads.
Geo RSS Feeds: in Virtual earth users can import shapes, pushpins and polylines with GeoRSS feeds.
Weather Integration: Virtual earth provides users with near real time weather and cloud formation data.
Virtual earth Geographic Coverage
Virtual Earth provides information for a number of countries. It mainly provides the Coverage in 3 forms.
treat and Routing/directions Coverage: Virtual contains road coverage for many countries. The roads are covered in Virtual Earth Map Control and Virtual Earth Web Services.
3D, Bird’s Eye, Aerial and Satellite Imagery Coverage: Virtual Earth contains 3D terrain models that are available globally, with a number of international cities featuring unique Bird’s eye.
Geo Coding/Address Lookup and Parsing: Virtual Earth provides the ability of geocoding by passing an unparsed address string to find service. Virtual Earth returns the result and in case of multiple results of the query it prompts the user with possible matches.
Technorati Tags: Microsoft virtual earth, using virtual earth features of virtual earth,
Tags: Microsoft Virtual Earth
