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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)
Work Offers - Mapping of an SQL Database using Virtual Earth
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Mapping of an SQL Database using Virtual Earth by SBu on 23 Jan 08 @ 22:11:00 UTC
Hello,
I am trying to get an idea of the cost/feasability of a project. I am going to have someone else work on the website but will need the following:
1) I have a number of databases, most in excel or access with a federal one that I might be able to connect too directly using SQL (I will be using SQL). I need to geocode and map these sites. The databases will not have the same format. That is, address might be the first column in one database and the last in another.
2) I need to then allow a user to find an address, or point, and create a report of the mapped sites. The radii are defined but there is an option to allow the user to adjust radii. I have the report format; basically a simple listing of the location of each found site relative to the mapped address followed by a listing of the information found in the other columns. Each database should have it's own map. So, it goes: database name, map of sites, list of sites relative to the mapped property, list of all of the information from the database.
3) The system must be update-able. I will be adding more databases and updating the current databases regularly. The total number will be, eventually, around 1,000 databases with millions of entries.
4) This must be accessible over the Internet.
There are a bunch of smaller issues, but that's the gist.
Sam