The specifications of the Virtual Earth
The Virtual Earth is equipped with more features than the competitive earth browsers. It is free and for most of the features there is not need to download the Virtual Earth. However if you download the Virtual Earth then you can make better use of the Virtual Earth.
In addition to the different types of views that the Virtual Earth provides to the user there are some additional tools and features with which the Virtual Earth becomes more efficient than the others. Some of them are described bellow.
The different icons for the tools and other things as the info boxes etc are located on the screen and therefore they may hide some region of the map. Therefore the viewer can hide them or customize their shape for better view. In addition to this the user who has downloaded the Virtual Earth can also customize the pushpins, polylines, and polygons of the Virtual Earth. In addition to this he can also modify the colors shapes and transparency of the icons.
One important feature that the Virtual Earth has is the info boxes. These are very useful and they will provide you with the information of your interest for a point on the map. It can provide the information about the business, useful things as hospitals, or tourist destinations hotels etc. You can customize the info boxes and their contents.
Comfortable controls by using the mouse as well as the keyboard make the use of the Virtual Earth very easy and comfortable. You can even customize the controls and thus make them to suite your comfort.
The Virtual Earth provides you the maps and the related data in 13 different languages. You can even customize the maps and set the Virtual Earth to display the maps in the local language among these thirteen languages. However for using this feature you have to use the Map Point Web Service API.
The proximity search is another useful tool that the Virtual Earth provides to the users. In this feature the viewers can add a list of the points which they are looking for. They can add these according to the proximity to a particular location. The Virtual Earth would provide some more points of interest through those routes.
It also provides the Birds Eye panning. With the help of this feature you can pan through the maps and thus browse through the region of your interest and also compare the surroundings region as you can also view that while panning to the point in which you are interested. You can over fetch the title and thus increase the speed the panning through the maps.
The Virtual Earth also displays a mini map in addition to the main map. This map is not that much focused and therefore when you are browsing at a point at a great resolution, then you can also view what surrounds that region. If you click on a point on this map you would be taken to that point on the main map also and that too with the resolution of the main map.
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