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ViaWindowsLive on Via Virtual Earth Blog
The new ViaWindowsLive community site has launched and features not only a definitive set of resources on all Live Services from Microsoft but also a special section on Virtual Earth including a new site gallery for you to upload your sites, new articles on Version 6, including getting started guide, an interactive quick guide, location finder and more. Subscribe to the VWL aggregated blog to stay in touch with everything Live Services related. Find all the great content from this site and much, much more. Explore how other Live Services can compliment Virtual Earth and your applications.
Version 5 URL changed - Error: 'VEMap' is undefined on Via Virtual Earth Blog
It has been reported that the old url to access the Version5 javascript for Virtual Earth no longer works. This is effecting sites worldwide.
The correct way to reference the Version 5 javascript is:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=5"></script>
If you have been effected a forum thread has been started here
Silverlight Virtual Earth viewer on Via Virtual Earth Blog
With the launch of silverlight yesterday I was digging around and found this viewer for Virtual Earth by Greg Schechter. It does use the 1.1 alpha of silverlight. It gives some interesting ideas for where Virtual Earth could be headed. Certainly the demo of the performance of silverlight compared to javascript for processing showed a significant increase. This could be very useful.
And of course on the gamer front check this out by Andy Beaulieu and shoot down some UFO's over Birdseye images.
John.
So much new Virtual Earth Imagery Worldwide. on Via Virtual Earth Blog
I subscribe to all the VE blogs and recently the posts about updated imagery has been more and more frequent.
The latest is here and for myself downunder we saw three updates, Canberra, Newcastle and Uluru:
Derek Chan posts 3 Articles in a month! on Via Virtual Earth Blog
A big thank you to the efforts of Derek Chan who posted his third VE article today (he actually had it ready weeks ago but had to wait for Mr Bottleneck here at VVE ;) )
The 3 articles are all relivant to Version 5 of Virtual Earth and deal with the Mini Map, debugging javascript and now custom pins in routes.
All these can now be found in our articles section.
If you have something to contribute send us an email.
John (The bottleneck)
Virtual Earth Mobile - Problems on VirtualEarth Mobile
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Problems on VirtualEarth Mobile by Raymond on 16 Nov 06 @ 13:29:00 UTC
I have installed VirtualEarth Version 1.68 on my Pocket PC. I set the cache memory to 50000Kb onto my 4G SD card, hopping I could load more map tiles, At first I did successfully cached the complete arieal maps for Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, but suddently I encountered the following Error Message:-
VirtualEarthMobile.exe
IOException
__Error:: WinIOError +0x8a
File:: Move +0x55
DownloadRequest:: Download +0xdd
DownloadRequest:: DownloadQueueThread +0x57
TileManager:: DownloadQueueThreadProc +0xc
After that, I closed and restarted the program, same errors occured.
I then deleted and re-installed the program, but the same errors still occured.
Please if you could advise me on how to solve the above problems. Thanks Very Much!
RE: Problems on VirtualEarth Mobile by RWLDavis on 25 Jan 07 @ 12:21:00 UTC
Mostly worked great first time on my less-than-impressive Verizon PPC/XV6600 (Audiovox/Ustar). Major omission on the address feature: why no linkage to Contacts/Address Book? How stupid is that? And the entry is not very forgiving. I found the only reliable address entry method was to enter just the ZIP code...and to be sure to click DONE, not OK.
RE: Problems on VirtualEarth Mobile by hoffinon on 25 May 07 @ 22:44:00 UTC
I can't even do that, whenever i try to located anything by address on my AT&T 8525 it just crashes..
VirtualEarthMobile.exe
FormatException
Application::Run+0xf
FormPocketEarth::Main+0xb
that's the details.. all i put in was a local zip code of 48316 and it just went down.
very very very annoying, it used to work. any idea?
hoffinon at comcast.net
thanks!
RE: Problems on VirtualEarth Mobile by wlw on 30 May 07 @ 12:42:00 UTC
likewise. it used to work great, but now all i get when i try to look up an address or place is the same error as above. I installed the latest version just to be sure. WM5 on TREO
RE: Problems on VirtualEarth Mobile by devlin.bentley on 16 Jul 07 @ 23:50:00 UTC
For everyone having problems, note that the author of this app has released a new program that does the same thing and more! Grab <a href="http://virtualearth.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2BBC66E99FDCDB98!8910.entry">Windows Live Mobile Search</a> :)