On Wednesday 4th February I presented with Mark Lewin and Annie Hawkins in an ESRI(UK) webinar on using ArcGIS with Virtual Earth. We covered the benefits of this integration as well as details on how to get started with it.
You can watch a recording of the webinar here. (You need to crank up the [...]
What wimps us English are with a bit of snow! Here is the BBC map mash-up for the occasion:
See the BBC’s snow map. This is a very cool community map mash-up’ where you can add your comment to the map:
Well done BBC for getting a great mapping application up and running quickly.
Recently I’ve been thinking about the the world of mobile telephony and what it means for maps. So we’ve had the iPhone since June 2007 and it certainly has exploded consumer expectations for interactive Location Based Services. For better or worse, the iPhone is now the yardstick against which all new mobile devices and applications [...]
As I now spend so much time in Innsbruck, I thought I better give skiing a go. Growing up in Africa meant I had never tried it before. To be honest I was rather hoping I would hate it and would then save a lot of money as a result. Unfortunately I am rather enjoying [...]
Richard Brundritt at Infusion Development has started a great new technical blog on using Virtual Earth. There are some great technical resources here, for example this post on using custom icons with the new Virtual Earth Imagery Web Service.
Recently I met Brian and Neil form Earthware and they have been telling me about some of the new stuff they are working on. They have been developing some really cool stuff with the VE API. One of these as an integration of street photos (taken from the back of a motorbike apparently!) into their [...]
I was speaking to Mark Brown at TechEd this morning. After he had berated me for blogging this photo, we spoke about the best technical resources for VE. A while ago I blogged on this here.
Now Mark has been working on dev.live.com/virtualearth/ as a one stop shop for technical links for VE developers. This [...]
This week I am at TechEd EMEA 2008 Developers on the Virtual Earth “Ask the Expert Stand”. TechEd is a Microsoft event aimed at developers (and is not ashamed at being very technical!)
It has been great talking to loads of mainstream developers who are looking to include a mapping as part of their applications. [...]
Just released is version 6.2 of Virtual Earth Map Control and the new Virtual Earth Web Services. I will be blogging on the new features in detail over the coming weeks. There is some really exciting stuff.
Meanwhile heaps more information is on Chris Pendleton’s blog
One of the common problems with Web Mapping applications is that what end users regard as a place often does not match the ‘official’ place names in the commercial gazetteer data that web mapping services depend on for geocoding. For example in London everyone knows where “Soho“, “Bloomsbury” and “Big Ben” are, but in [...]
