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Subscribing to a KML file via RSS
Posted on August 13th, 2008 on Virtual Earth / Live Maps
Here’s another super helpful trick to make it easy to keep up on news events being reported via KML. Ideally, timely information with a Ge...

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Avi Bar-Zeev joins the Virtual Earth team
Posted on August 4th, 2008 on Virtual Earth / Live Maps
Awesome to have Avi joining our team here at Microsoft. he’s got a pretty detailed post on his RealityPrime blog talking about his latest career ch...

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MSN Direct – new API enables OTA delivery to navigation systems
Posted on July 29th, 2008 on Virtual Earth / Live Maps
This past January we introduced a feature on Live Maps that enabled you to send a Collection to your compatible Navigation system over FM a...

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Microsoft trueSpace7.6 ships. Who should care?
Posted on July 24th, 2008 on Virtual Earth / Live Maps
Animators, artists, graphic designers. there’s lots of talk today around the release of trueSpace 7.6, especially now that its price has...

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Some Virtual Earth Apps and Links featuring IDV’s KML editor in Silverlight
Posted on July 11th, 2008 on Virtual Earth / Live Maps
I came across this first app from the earthware blog this week - London Executive Property Bird at first glance is just another Virtual Earth Real Estate app (JaveRea) but it i...

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Puzzling GPS reference in the New York Times today
Posted on July 9th, 2008 on Virtual Earth / Live Maps
Unfortunately, there’s not much you can do with the G.P.S. According to Apple, the iPhone’s G.P.S. antenna is much too small to emulate t...

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Open Street Map coming to Seattle
Posted on July 8th, 2008 on Virtual Earth / Live Maps
There’s a mapping party in Seattle July 26th to help build out Open Street Maps’s (OSM) coverage here.  If you’re in the Seattle area t...

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Measuring distance and area in Live Maps
Posted on July 7th, 2008 on Virtual Earth / Live Maps
This post by Greg Sterling this AM is a good reminder to tell you about one of my favorite features on Live Maps – Distance and Area calcul...

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China Central Television partners with Virtual Earth
Posted on June 13th, 2008 on Virtual Earth / Live Maps
This brief mail came to me this AM from Vincent Tao who leads many of Microsoft's mapping and GIS initiatives in China - CCTV (China Centr...

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Mt. Rushmore in Birds Eye
Posted on May 29th, 2008 on Virtual Earth / Live Maps
A couple of weeks ago I was commenting to our imagery team that the area around Mt Rushmore would be a great addition to our Birds Eye library; it...

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