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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 Madness - using Virtual Earth PrintScreens in web design
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using Virtual Earth PrintScreens in web design by GreenTM333 on 3 Apr 08 @ 14:27:00 UTC
Hello!
Does anyone know if there are any restrictions in using Virtual Earth pictures in web design? Let's say i'd like to use the picture of Paris for my web page background...
Can i remove the microsoft logo and such things?
thank you for help,
Blaz
RE: using Virtual Earth PrintScreens in web design by (deleted user) on 4 Apr 08 @ 21:15:00 UTC
You may not remove or obscure the logos.
[url=http://www.microsoft.com/virtualearth/product/terms.html]MICROSOFT® VIRTUAL EARTHTM PLATFORM API TERMS OF USE[/url]
[b]Restrictions on your use: We do have some restrictions on your use of the service. You may not[/b]
-copy, store, archive, or create a database of the content, except that geocodes may be stored locally only for use with your Applications;
-exceed 50,000 geocoding transactions in any 24 hour period;
-download more than 250 points of interest at any one time;
-provide guidance based on the position or routing of multiple objects tracked using GPS or other sensor-generated methods;
-present or alert an end user to individual maneuvers of a route in any way that is synchronized with the end-user’s sensor-based position along the route, (e.g. “real-time” navigation);
[b]-change, obscure or remove any portion of the results (including, without limitation, any logo, trademark, copyright or other notice of Microsoft or its suppliers, digital watermarks, or any advertisement);[/b]
-integrate the Virtual Earth Platform or any of its content with any other mapping platform.
