By Soul Solutions on Thursday, 28 February 2008

We've been working away on the new version of the Microsoft Australia Find a Partner site and it has now been released!

So's what's new since the last version?  The key features that the end users i.e. YOU see are:

• Upgraded the map to use Virtual Earth version 6
• You can now filter by specialisation aswell as competency
• List of partners on a pin hover now has infinite scroll rather than a next button

By Soul Solutions on Tuesday, 19 February 2008

Our presentation at the Gold Coast .Net User group on SQL 2008 Spatial and Virtual Earth has now been postponed till the 20th March.

By Soul Solutions on Saturday, 9 February 2008

For those that don't know I moderate the Virtual Earth forums at MSDN:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=537&SiteID=1

The forum is buzzing with questions and awesome answers from the likes of Ricky, Derek, Brian, Jeff, Roberto, Mike and many others. If you really want to know where the VE dev community is the forums is the place.

So today I came across another post asking about Virtual Earth in a Windows Forms (desktop) applications. My thoughts are, what a great opportunity for MSFT, harness the power of Virtual Earth data and services within rich Windows a ... Read More »

By Soul Solutions on Friday, 8 February 2008

We've been working on a new Microsoft Usergroup site for the last few months, and it's just been released! You can check it out here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-au/cc185136.aspx

It allows users for find any of the Microsoft User Groups in Australia visually on a Virtual Earth Version 6 map.  You can also filter the groups by name, location and group type.

 

By Soul Solutions on Friday, 8 February 2008

One of our clients that John has been working with for awhile has release their new site http://clikitysplit.com.

ClikitySplit.com is the world wide web’s first visual, rich multimedia, dynamic, marketing and search engine.  Using ClikitySplit, consumers worldwide can quickl ... Read More »

By Soul Solutions on Sunday, 27 January 2008

We've had a late addition to our user group tour...Gold Coast .Net.  We'll be visiting these guys on the 21st February, venue TBA.  Will add some links and details as they come to hand.

Updated schedule can be found HERE

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By Soul Solutions on Thursday, 24 January 2008

Next Tuesday, 29th we're off to Hobart to present 2 sessions on SQL Spatial with Virtual Earth.  We're lucky to be the 2nd presentation at the newly formed Hobart SQL Server Usergroup during the day followed by the Hobart .Net at night.

Details for the session:

In this visually interactive talk we explore the new spatial data types, functions and indexes directly related to the real world using the interactive browser based Virtual Earth control. We focus on the new Geography data type providing an overview of the new functionality as directly applied to mapping. This includes the storage of points, polylines and polygons as well as real world tasks like effective rendering to the map, geofencing and proximity searches. We explore the power of union and buffering. Finally we examine the new index specifically built for fast ... Read More »

By Soul Solutions on Wednesday, 23 January 2008

In part 2 of this series, Derek Chan shows how to integrate the Mappoint Web Service platform on a Virtual Earth map.

http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth/InvokingserversidecodeusingAJAXPart2.aspx

If you recall part 1 introduced the concepts of using a httphandler to communicate between server side code and Virtual Earth.

http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth/InvokingserversidecodeusingAJAX.aspx

... Read More »

By Soul Solutions on Wednesday, 16 January 2008

I spoke with Rony Ledany the Managing Director of Terra Pixel about their new product ImagePatch this week. As you may know the Virtual Earth API allows for custom tile layers to be added over the top of the stock road or aerial tiles built in. The difficulty is how you source the data, prepare and integrate into your system.

I asked Rony a few quick questions:

John: So Rony, what is ImagePatch?

Rony: ImagePatch.com Read More »

By Soul Solutions on Sunday, 13 January 2008

This week we arrive in Melbourne to present our 3rd in a series of 8 talks on SQL Spatial with Virtual Earth.  So far there's just under 100 people registered so should be a great turn out.  If you're interested and haven't signed up all the details are below. 

SQL Spatial with Virtual Earth 

15 January - Melbourne - Register HERE

In this visually interactive talk we explore the new spatial data types, functions and indexes directly related to the real world using the interactive browser based Virtual Earth control. W ... Read More »