This is a very cool, it displays Open Street Map maps within the Bing Maps Silverlight API. A super slick silverlighty navigation experience! You can set the opacity so you can see the bing maps and aerial underneath. You can even rotate on the X, Y and Z axis!
More info here on this and [...]
Soul Solutions have a great blog post on using Azure to store custom image tiles (i.e. with your own data) for overlay on Bing Maps.
A little bit of GIS in the cloud… Neat…
For example:
from the BBC.
I am at the Bregenz for the ESRI 2009 German speaking conference to speak about using Virtual Earth and ESRI together…
My slides are here and:
The event is at at the Festspielhaus beside Lake Constance (as featured in the latest James Bond film), which is a cool venue:
At the moment they are setting up a strange broken [...]
Wondering if your MP (UK Member of Parliament) is on the gravy train? Well now you can see by checking our this great map mashup.
It is great implementation using the new Virtual Earth Silverlight Control. More details here. Try out those ultra smooth zooms and pans!
This bbc map is very cool!
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
Happy [...]
I have juts discovered this hotmap that shows tile usage stats for VE. It is pretty cool and I have been having a bit of fun exploring with it. More about it is here.
The pattern of hot spots is interesting for Europe. It certainly seems that usage follows the density of population (e.g. [...]
If you are a VE developer you may want to have a look at this contest for your chance to have your work showcased and win a Virtual Earth glass globe! You can’t loose as all contributors (with valid submissions) will receive a free T-shirt.
Are you a Virtual Earth and/or Multimap developer? If so you should consider coming along to the VE Developer Event. We are designing this event especially for developers (so if you do not like looking at code this is not the event for you!).
Developing with Virtual Earth
Thursday 19th March – Microsoft, Thames Valley Park, [...]
