By Soul Solutions on
Friday, 24 October 2008
 The HDView team released a gem of a sample app this week from ICE that amongst other things provide a solution for showing 360 degree panoramas. The solution uses three MSI controls to provide a seamless panning experience.
Now what could be a bigger 360 panorama then the Earth itself? 
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By Soul Solutions on
Sunday, 19 October 2008
 There’s less than a week till our 2nd Girl Geek Dinner Brisbane and this month we’re fortunate to have Susannah Raub speaking at our dinner. Google have been kind enough to send her up to Brisbane and has offered to put $20/head towards the dinner.
 Susannah Raub joined Google in September 2004 as a software engineer in Mountain View, California. She worked on many features of Google Desktop until February 2006 when she moved to New York and joined the Google Maps - Search
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By Soul Solutions on
Monday, 13 October 2008
So you’re interested in Silverlight and Virtual Earth, you’ve downloaded the DeepEarth code but are now completely lost? Well check out two 20min videos to walk you through the code and get you started. Part1 and Part2. The videos essentially walk you through the solutions, pointing out what each of the projects does, the structure and how to get the right project running. 
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By Soul Solutions on
Thursday, 9 October 2008
The Virtual Earth JavaScript control is not small weighing in at 217KB when compressed in Version 6.2. When you require the rich experience of Virtual Earth this size is not an issue, the control is aimed at broadband users and within a few moments of interacting with the map you can easy exceed this with the rich imagery being loaded on demand. But what if your web page only needs to show the Virtual Earth map when a user asks for it or you just want your page to load super fast? You need to load Virtual Earth on demand. 
See an example here: http://www.soulsolutions.com.au/examples/VE62/loadondemand.htm (view source for full code)
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
The Virtual Earth JavaScript control has supported tile overlays for some time. A tile layer is set of 256px square images matching the Mercator projection of Virtual Earth. Tile layers are usually layered on top of Virtual Earth, the control supports transparency and an opacity of the entire layer. With the latest release of Version 6.2 of the control you can now disable the base tile layers allowing for greater performance when your tiles are all you need. Lets look at what is required to load OpenStreetMap tiles into Virtual Earth. 
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By Soul Solutions on
Thursday, 2 October 2008
We use Admin Centre for a few sites, one of the main ones is Geek Girl Blogs. I’ve done up an article to show the different membership and branding options it provides here.
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