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Thematic Mapping and Shaded Area Maps with Virtual Earth
Posted on September 14th, 2006 on Windows Live Local / Virtual Earth
It used to be that if you needed to create presentation quality shaded area maps you had to spend thousands of dollars on a GIS or Business mapping...

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Subscribe to an RSS feed of your neighborhood!
Posted on August 10th, 2006 on Windows Live Local / Virtual Earth
Thanks to a bunch of prods and some tech support from Mikel Maron, I've added the ability to grab an RSS feed to the Collection browsing mashu...

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Collection of the Week
Posted on August 10th, 2006 on Windows Live Local / Virtual Earth
I really can no longer review every public collection that gets created - there's just too many. but I still try to check out as many as possib...

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Exploring Collections interactively and with GeoRSS feeds
Posted on August 8th, 2006 on Windows Live Local / Virtual Earth
Here is a fun toy for exploring Collections in Live Local. Users are creating on the order of 100,000 Collections a month since the feature lau...

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