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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By Soul Solutions on
Thursday, 1 May 2008
 What is better then a few images and links of the new Birdseye for Australia? How about a 5min video exploring some of the cool new images in 3D!
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By Soul Solutions on
Thursday, 1 May 2008
Its been a long time comming for us down under but today four major cities have been given the Virtual Earth Birdseye treatment. Click on the links to be taken to map.live.com and check them out in detail:
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By Soul Solutions on
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
This example comes from Steve Lombardi's blog post last year and has been updated to the latest version of Virtual Earth at the time of writing. The code and collection was presented at the Museums and the Web conference in Montreal, Canada.
In the space of 10 minutes you can present a custom collection presented on the Virtual Earth platform within your own web site by leveraging http://maps.live.com as your content editor and storage and using the Virtual Earth API. Here we present the simple code to do this and some extra features like a map search, custom numbered icons and an outline text listing with clickable titles.
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 2 April 2008
 We're heading off to Montreal this weekend, to attend the Museums and Web Conference. John has been going for a few years now, usually presenting on content managment, but this year he's presenting a paper: Using the Microsoft Virtual Earth API to provide Geographical Access to Cultural Heritage and doing a half day workshop: Exploring the National Gallery of Australia online database for prints and printmaking spatially. So I'm going along to help him out a bit with the workshop. I've armed myself with art paper and texters to keep the crowd amused and bring out some crea ...
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By Soul Solutions on
Friday, 28 March 2008
9 presentations, 8 cities and 9 giant tennis balls later, we've concluded our series of SQL Spatial and Virtual Earth talks.
There were a few questions that kept occuring around the funding for our "tour". We paid for all the flights, accommodation and transport ourselves (except for the flights to the Melbourne group..which were kindly funded by the usergroup).
Then the next set of questions were around why did we do it if we didn't get paid for it. For us, there were a few opportunities.
- There was the fact we got to see a new new places..like Perth and Adelaide.
- We got to meet lots of people we "talk to" onlink but had never met.
- We got to talk to people ...
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 26 March 2008
It will be my first MVP summit next month. The summit is at Microsoft Campus in Redmond Seattle. The event sounds pretty cool with presentations and social activities.
So to contribute I teamed up with the event organisers to create an Attendee Map using Virtual Earth.
http://mvp.soulclients.com/
It is very cool to see how international the event is and just how many community focused people will be there.
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By Soul Solutions on
Saturday, 8 March 2008
Chris Pendleton announced the upcomming release of a Silverlight Virtual Earth Control with Seadragon technology at Mix during his VE presentation.
Check out the presentation, little preview towards the end with integration of other deep zoom images and video.
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By Soul Solutions on
Thursday, 6 March 2008
After watching all the cool new stuff in IE8 and excited about the JavaScript performance improvements I thought I would I would install it today. After checking out that most sites built for IE7/FF2 combo rendered fine I flicked over to Virtual Earth and pop - javascript error on the VEAPI - "my market is not supported"  .
Interesting the maps.live.com rendered but wasn't really useable - the interactive SDK, the benchmark for all things Virtual Eart ...
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