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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)
Implementation - MapPointWebService vs. VEMapControl 6.0
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MapPointWebService vs. VEMapControl 6.0 by diana A. on 1 Mar 08 @ 07:11:00 UTC
I want to develop a Visual Studio 2008, ASP.NET web application, that will be 90% about mapping points and finding the shortest route between those points.
But I have a big, probably easy question: What should I use? MapPointWebService or VEMapControl 6.0? I can't figure out the difference between them, except that one is a web service, and the other is a remote API.
I've started with VEMapControl, and thigs went smooth, even if I'm a total beginner in javascript and ASP.NET. I have no experience in web app development, or web services, but I'm willing to learn.
So, the question is: which one is the best choice? Pros and cons?
Any opinion is appreciated. Thank you in advance.
diana
RE: MapPointWebService vs. VEMapControl 6.0 by Dr. Neil on 2 Mar 08 @ 21:43:00 UTC
Hi Diana,
Map Point Web Service is the older version and many people are moving to using VE.
The MapPoint web service still has a role in an online application. If you want to make calls from the server to carry out GIS functions the web service is the better option.
For a pure browser client solution then VE is a better option.
There are of course lots of little differences and I recommend looking at the content on MSDN http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualearth/default.aspx
and ViaWindowsLive
http://www.viawindowslive.com/
for more information.
Good luck and when you have something you want to show off be sure to post it on the gallery
http://www.viawindowslive.com/Gallery/tabid/75/agentType/ViewType/PropertyTypeID/1/Default.aspx