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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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
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
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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