Blog List

This is a simple list of the various resources available for your development needs.

Sign up for you developer account here:

https://mappoint-css.live.com/mwssignup

Official Microsoft:

• Virtual Earth API on MSDN
• Virtual Earth Interactive SDK
• Virtual Earth Forum on MSDN
• Microsoft MapPoint Web Service API on MSDN
• Silverlight Control CTP
• VIRTUAL EARTH SERVICE API TERMS OF USE
• Geographic Coverage Details
• Streetside Technology Preview
• Windows Live Maps for Mobile
• SQL Server 2008 Spatial Forum

Community sites:

Follow me on twitter for latest VE news as it happens: http://twitter.com/virtualearth

• Liveside.net - great news and articles about windows live
• Geoweb Guru - news and in depth Geo Articles
• MP2K - the magazine for MapPoint

Community Projects:

• WinForms Control - A must for anyone looking at using VE in a windows forms app.
• Silverlight Control - Open Source mapping control support VE Web Service.
• WPF / Surface Control – Open Source WPF control with support for the multi-touch Surface computer
• VE Intellisence – Intellisence for VS2008 for the AJAX control
• VE Toolkit – Extras for the AJAX control including MVC
• Virtual Earth Maps on SharePoint – Part of the larger Community Kit for SharePoint

ESRI:

• VE interactive SDK
• Silverlight/WPF Control
• Inclusion of VE in ArcGIS 9.3.1

Tools:

• Intellisence for Visual Studio 2008
• MSR MapCruncher for Virtual Earth
• Virtual Earth Location Finder
• Spatial Extensions for SQL Server 2005
• General Polygon Clipper library
• Determining if a point lies on the interior of a polygon
• Build your own URL for maps.live.com

Blogs:

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• Virtual Earth, a developer blog
• Virtual Earth 3D (msdn - 3d control code in c#)
• Virtual Earth For Government
• Hannes's Virtual Earth Blog
• Virtual Earth Platform Blog
• Keith Kinnan Blog (VE Dev)
• Virtual Earth / Live Maps
• Heptazane's Stump
• Soul Solutions
• Virtual Earth 3D (spaces)
• Ricky's VE Blog
• Chris Pietschmann
• Mike Garza
• VirtualBirdseye
• Geoff Emery VE Blog

Exams:

• VE6.0

Free GIS Data Sources:

• GeoCommons
• Census 2000 U.S. Gazetteer Files
• Country Files (GNS)
• GeoNames Data Access
• U.S. Board on Geographic Names

Please let me know if I’m missing anything, I’ll repost this regularly (3 months) with the latest links.