Virtual Earth Staging Environment
Microsoft virtual earth has launched our staging environments, which enables users to access the features of Virtual Earth for hitting production. The Microsoft Virtual Earth Customer Identification feature is an important part of the Virtual Earth platform. This feature allows you to access and view reports detailing your application’s platform usage from the Virtual Earth Platform Customer Services site. These reports display information about your Virtual Earth Platform usage, including both MapPoint Web Service transactions and Virtual Earth map control transactions. As a licensed customer, you are required to use this identification feature as part of your service level agreement. It’s a convenient and accurate way to track how your investment is being utilized.
Benefits for licensed customers: Users can access transaction reporting. Licensed customers can avail more accurate billing and auditing for customers without an unlimited usage license. Access to the Virtual Earth Staging Environment to test client tokens, without being billed is possible. Better customer support from reporting information is available.
Integrating the Virtual Earth Customer Identification feature into your Virtual Earth applications is a simple process for developers. Once you have implemented the Virtual Earth Customer Identification feature in your Virtual Earth application(s), you can access the Virtual Earth features.
If you do not already have a Virtual Earth Customer Identification, please follow these instructions: If you have a Windows ID, great if you do not, you need to create one. You are required to create a Virtual Earth Platform developer account. You can use your developer account to get tokens from the token staging service. One can also use tokens in your staging map control application. You can use your Windows Live ID to log into the Virtual Earth Customer services. Last but not east you can go to the 'View Reports' page to see your activity in the Staging Environment.
The Microsoft Virtual Earth Staging Environment offers you a free staging area to try out new features and functionality, including the Virtual Earth Customer Identification feature. Perform small-scale testing in the Staging Environment, watermarked as “staging” for clear differentiation, without affecting your billing.
Here’s what you can do in the Staging Environment: Evaluate the platform and develop with the latest features for free. Test new applications. Without being billed or influencing your production environment. Build the next version of your Virtual Earth application without influencing your current version.
Another interesting detail Due to the huge popularity virtual earth has enjoyed, Microsoft have launched the latest version of Virtual Earth on http://local.live.com. Along with a bit of a redesign they have added some really neat drawing features. The users will easily be able to sketch areas and routes that could be used by businesses and businessman to show all kinds of fun stuff like catchment areas, population statistics, , race routes, delivery areas, , train routes, scientific data and even housing prices. The list is just endless. Virtual Earth has already become a strong powerful tool for much business, specially the ones with mapping solution needs. American’s are even luckier. Virtual Earth had introduced a new feature called ' Bird's eye’, which allows the user to have a 45 degree panoramic view of the place as if the user is actually there.
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