Archive for March 2009

Virtual Earth Tiles now in ArcGIS Server 9.3.1

A lot of people have been asking me if it was possible to use VE imagery and maps directly in ArcGIS Server (as you already can in ArcMap).  Well the good news is now you can!  This approach incorporates the VE tiles directly (rather than using the ArcGIS JavaScript™ Extension for Microsoft Virtual Earth™)
See http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline/whats_new.html
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History of the Internet

I enjoyed this:

Ok so it is a bit of a plug for IE8…

Photosynth Silverlight Viewer

I have been checking out the Photosynth Experimental Silverlight Viewer.
I think this is great because:

It is ‘Silverlighty’ fast
It is ‘Silverlighty’ smooth
You do not need to install a photosynth specific plug-in.  As long as someone has Silverlight installed (and more and more users now do), they can view your photosynths.
Because it uses Silverlight it works [...]