Virtual Earth - Product Details
Take a closer look, investigate browse the Virtual Earth application. Just imagine what you could do in your organization using this large amount of information. You will easily visualize and understand the location data as it is very simple to interact with the application. Until now whichever organization has used it, has liked it a great deal because it boosts productivity and empowers the organization. Not just organizations, but normal users and developers are in its favor, as the application is incredibly useful and knowledgeable that can be used in their leisure time. Vivid photorealistic images with bird’s eye view and 3D images are enjoyed by people of any age-group. Whenever you access maps or data, the application does not download these images. This saves you from heavy cost of downloading images.
The images of virtual earth are very flexible; this makes it a powerful tool. You can easily customize location-based data; display your business location, amenities or available inventory as thousands of people visit the site every day. This can become your excellent marketing source. It will improve your business insight. As it provides information on business, you can view customer demographic data to estimate regional sales potential. The data will help you in making key business decisions. It provides you information on weather or traffic, which will help you to avoid traffic jams. You can add GPS data to track your assets like mobile, vehicle, etc. Virtual earth continues to develop new releases by offering new detailed maps each year.
The virtual earth is constantly expanding the coverage area. Now they provide highway-level data of many countries like Africa, Central America, etc. Additionally they are giving labels to users like country borders, bodies of water etc. The map provides data in different languages like French, German, Italian or Spanish. It gives rich features and functionality to help the end-user. The user can transform digital photos into panoramic experience, which is useful if you wish to get a big picture of a particular image. People can manage resources through the site. The maps are good for mobile devices too. You can develop mobile application using these images as this feature is supported by virtual earth web service.
The application contains total 71 million unique addresses. This will give you the feel of “what’s like in there?” Day by day, the organization is improving by creating more realistic views of 3D buildings and landscapes from all around the world. There are integrated geo-coders who will help you to get most detailed location and provide most comprehensive results. If you use this application for business purposes, then the international customer can easily locate your address. It not only gives maps but also gives walking directions in different languages. You can see the distance between two places. However, New Zealand, Canada and Australia addresses matches are better than other countries. While finding your address, if the location name is miss-spelled, then virtual earth provides an alternative or similar spelling.
Developers who are working on web services can take advantage of Virtual Earth Web services API. This API offers static map images, one-box search functionality and routing. There is one more special feature called pushpin clustering which allows you to zoom in to visualize a cluster of points. Virtual Earth also provides landmarks such as fast-foot restaurants and gas stations.
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