By Soul Solutions on
Thursday, 17 July 2008
 This is a big event going on right now in Sydney, Australia. We put together a little video to show all the places around the world the event has been held in celebration.
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By Soul Solutions on
Thursday, 10 July 2008
So you’re a Virtual Earth Developer, busy times, why would you want to sit an exam on it? I sat the beta exam last year and although caught out a little by the MapPoint Web services questions got a reasonable score. 
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
 Part of qualifying for the Data Visualisation Specialisation calls for 2 members of your organisation to pass the Microsoft Virtual Earth 6.0: Developing Applications exam. Ever wondered how many people have passed that exam? Well now you can…
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By Soul Solutions on
Monday, 23 June 2008
The DeepEarth codeplex project continues to grow with more developers, discussions, work items and source code. Huge thanks goes to Shaun who has be building out a concept for the architecture of the control and Jonas who made a cool dashboard control. I thought I would share a rather cool example of what you can do, a pin on the map that when you click animates to show a deep zoom panorama: 
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By Soul Solutions on
Friday, 13 June 2008
Today we launched project “Deep Earth” on codeplex. This open source project will bring together skills from developers all over the world to continue this concept and ultimately create a useable Silverlight control. Seven people have joined the fun: Shaun Becker, Jonas Follesø, Bronwen Zande, Darko Radiceski, Nicolas Boonaert, Rob Farley and myself John O’Brien. What a great mix of people!
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
For those of you in or near Brisbane, there’s a Virtual Earth Event coming soon – see below for details. For those in Melbourne, check out Dave’s blog post here
The Microsoft Virtual Earth EMEA team are holding an event on 1st August 2008 in Brisbane to provide you with all the information you require to integrate VE into your business offering. Never before has it been so easy for companies to track assets, find customers, manage a mobile sales force & engineers or make sure customers find you before they
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
The feedback from Part 1 has been great! There is definitely interest in this. Shaun Becker sent through this gem that removes my proxy server completely! Yes we now have Silverlight Deep Zoom talking directly to Virtual Earth! And better still I can give you a live demo (need SL beta2 installed – click image to view): 
So what has Shaun done to make this possible?
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By Soul Solutions on
Monday, 9 June 2008
 Silverlight and Virtual Earth are made for each other, but how best do we go about creating a Virtual Earth control in Silverlight? First up lets look at utilising the existing Deep Zoom control to serve up the base image tiles. In this proof of concept we have little more then a stock MultiScaleImage control hooked up to some appropriately created configuration XML, the output is only 6.8KB for the client! And check out the results on video:
Lets see how we do this with some proxy handler code.
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
 I know I haven't posted something code related on Virtual Earth in ages, rest assured I've just been very busy.
The 4 green boxes are the screen bounds passed to the server for data in many of my older virtual earth applications and samples, the 2 blue boxes are the standardised bounds I actually send these days. This is the new JavaScript code I use to get the current screen bounds:
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 7 May 2008
Still addicted to the new Birdseye images for Australia in the latest imagery additions from Microsoft I thought it would be cool to make a PhotoMosaic from the Virtual Earth assets. 
(Click to see full resolution using Silverlight Deep Zoom.) A PhotoMosaic is essentially a Mosaic of photos arranged together to look like another photo from a distance. I remember seeing my first one
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