The MBTA has announced a visualization challenge after releasing their Google Transit Feed Spec (GTFS) files to the public. Along with the GTFS files the MBTA has released a days worth of Charlie card taps (fare cards) for developers to visualize "a day in the life of the MBTA". This bas...

Microsoft Virtual Earth now has a new name (and it’s not Kumo or Kiev). First, a little background to ensure we’re all on the same page. As of yesterday…. Microsoft Virtual Earth is now called “Bing Maps for Enterprise.”

As you cannot have missed in the news recently Microsoft has re-branded its search offering to be called “Bing”. This means Virtual Earth is now called Bing Maps for Enterprise. Yesterday Microsoft automatically updated the Ajax Virtual Earth control to use the new Bing logo and you may have wondere...

Best Practices for Virtual Earth development (AJAX control). Great posts in the forum I thought i would share here.

Great Start to Getting your Virtual Earth webservice On

I just checked in an initial prototype of a reusable Virtual Earth component for ASP.NET MVC. The “VEToolkit.Web.MVC.Map” component is written as an Extension to the ASP.NET MVC AjaxHelper class, and allows for a simpler experience when implementing Virtual Earth mapping within ASP.NET MVC applicati...

In this article we will go over the basics of implementing MS Virtual Earth mapping capabilities in ASP.NET 3.5 Web Applications using the Web.Maps.VE v2.0 ASP.NET AJAX Virtual Earth Mapping Server Control. This article also shows code examples in C#, but this are exactly the same if you are using V...

The Web.Maps.VE v2.0 ASP.NET AJAX Virtual Earth Mapping control Raises a few of the Client-Side Virtual Earth Events up to Server-Side ASP.NET Code. One of these events is the Map.Click Event. The Map.Click Event gets raised each time the user clicks on the Map using the Mouse. This tutorial is goin...

The Web.Maps.VE v2.0 ASP.NET AJAX Virtual Earth Mapping Control comes with a couple of extender controls. These are additional controls contained within the controls Dll that basically add/extend the main Map control with additional functionality that’s not built-in. This tutorial is going to give y...

The Virtual Earth 3D control is a great tool when you not only want to know where some place is in the world, but also want to know what it looks like. This is particularly useful when traveling to new areas as landmarks can be easily identified ahead of time. Recently Microsoft release documentatio...

In the “Virtual Earth Silverlight: Using Tile Layers to Overlay Custom Map Imagery” article I showed you how to overlay your own Custom Map Imagery that you generated using the MapCruncher tool on top of the Map. Now, in this article I’ll show you what you need to know in order to overlay map imager...

It seems like forever since MIX’08 when a demo was shown of a new Silverlight-based Virtual Earth Map Control. Well, now FINALLY we actually have a version of the control to “play” around with. The reason I say “play” is because it’s still a CTP (Community Technology Preview). If you read the licens...

Yesterday, the Virtual Earth Silverlight Control CTP (Community Technology Preview) was announced at MIX’09. I was also fortunate to get early access to the CTP, so I’ve been playing with it for a few days. I can’t show you any code yet (until it’s released publicly), but I can tell you a little abo...

This is the first official release of the Virtual Earth Toolkit. The Virtual Earth Toolkit is a set of JavaScript-based Controls/Tools that Extend Virtual Earth with functionality that is commonly implemented, but hasn't been implemented within the Virtual Earth JavaScript Map Control. The Controls/...