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The Microsoft® Virtual EarthTM platform is an integrated set of services that combines advanced viewing options, including exclusive bird’s eye view1, aerial, and 3D imagery, with innovative mapping, location and search functionality.
Oct 20, 2017 · Free. Get. View the earth in real 3D! Walk the streets in many cities with street view! - view cool places on that earth like never before! - create animated scenes and save them! - organize the places you like in the "MyPlaces" collection. - share your places on Facebook and Twitter.
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- Windows 10 Version 17134.0 or Higher
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What's new in Virtual Earth?
- New Navigation with A New Default Dashboard
- “Photosynth” Style Bird's Eye Images in 3D
- Create Your Own 3D Models
- Routing Now Supports Multiple Points
- Traffic Overlays Anyone?
- Support For SSL (Encrypted, Secure) Web Sites
- Localization, First Steps
- Improved Geocoding and Confidence Data
- Usage Tracking and Client Identification with Tokens
- New Tile Set-Hill Shaded
The new navigation dashboard as shown in Figure 1provides all the default navigation functionality like zooming, panning, and changing map styles and map modes. Revamped in nearly every version to date, the latest control has a minimalist look and smaller download footprint. Importantly the user can minimize the control if they need more screen rea...
The “Bird's Eye” images within Virtual Earth are truly amazing. These oblique images are taken from a low angle and give high-resolution images of all four sides of a scene. Popular with Real Estate applications, these images compliment the straight down orthogonal images providing much more location detail than simply rooftops. New to Virtual Eart...
Virtual Earth has had world-class, highly accurate, 3D models for some time. Now, thanks to a partnership with Dassault, the new 3DVIA technology allows you to create your own models within Virtual Earth just like Figure 3. The application allows you to build your 3D model in a simple environment and add either built-in textures or your own. This a...
Do you want to enhance your application by letting your users get visual and textual map directions? Great news, the Virtual Earth routing functions have had a complete makeover for version 6. Routing will overlay a line along the streets and roads and provide turn-by-turn instructions for your selected route, see Figure 4 for an example. The new m...
Being able to plot a route is great, but how about overlaying the latest traffic flow data like in Figure 5?It is now supported in an ever-growing number of cities and is as simple to use as adding one line of code: Additionally you can show a built-in legend to explain the colors (customizable options include the title and the position of this leg...
Virtual Earth targets commercial applications with accurate and feature-rich functionality. Version 6 now supports the use of HTTPS to support the growing number of enterprise, e-commerce, or membership applications that require this level of security for communications. Previously if your site ran under SSL, you either had to redirect to another p...
Microsoft must address a number of different areas to fully localize Virtual Earth. These include the control text, the map tiles themselves, and the Web service results. Version 6 provides the first steps towards localization by providing localized direction information for routing. To enable localized results, firstly you must add a query paramet...
Geocoding is the process of assigning latitude and longitude values to data such as street addresses. In order to position anything on the Virtual Earth map, you need the location as a VELatLong class. Clearly it is uncommon to actually know these coordinates unless the data is coming from a GPS device or is previously geocoded. Virtual Earth provi...
The Virtual Earth platform now supports a mechanism to track individual usage. Essentially your Web server requests a specific token identifier using a secure Web service for each instance of a Virtual Earth map you serve. This token, specific to your application, is then set within the JavaScript Virtual Earth control before the map is loaded: As ...
The core imagery of Virtual Earth is broken into tile sets, these 256 x 256 px images are loaded on demand in both the 2D AJAX control and the 3D control. “Hill Shaded” is a new tile set that combines the lightweight, easy-to-read road tiles with a 3D shading effect based on the elevation data, see Figure 6. The result provides an alternative to th...
Microsoft Virtual Earth offers the ability to create immersive end-user experiences with bird’s eye views and bird’s eye in 3D*. Virtual Earth also offers walking directions, reverse geocoding to map geographical coordinates to the nearest
Free. Reconnect and disconnect to network or Internet connection automatically. Windows. Download Virtual Earth 3D for Windows to add realistic 3D capabilities to your online Live Search Maps.
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Aug 31, 2022 · The Virtual Earth Map Control SDK presents an interactive way to learn about the different things you can do with Virtual Earth. It displays all of the JavaScript source code for every example ( Figure 3 ). Figure 3: The Virtual Earth Interactive SDK provides JavaScript source code to learn from.
Jun 18, 2007 · Microsoft Virtual Earth is a free mapping service that provides users with driving directions, real-time traffic reports, street maps, and satellite imagery. Webware staff. June 18, 2007 3:40...