Virtual Earth Platform
Virtual Earth is Microsoft’s next generation web-based platform. It combines the MapPoint Web Service with exciting new innovations including bird's eye, satellite and aerial imagery. Virtual Earth is the best solution available on the market for commercial and government web-mapping applications.
SpatialPoint Atlas
SpatialPoint Atlas enables the development of sophisticated web-mapping applications to be developed using Virtual Earth. With Atlas you can render complex polygons such as sales territories and coverage boundaries, thematically shade regions based on your data, and manipulate spatial data to meet the needs of your application. See SpatialPoint Atlas in action for yourself here!
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Virtual Earth Benefits
Virtual Earth enables innovative mapping solutions and breakthrough customer experiences. Enhance your store locator with the dynamic, drag-n-drop maps, or provide your fleet drivers with highly-visual driving directions. The possibilities are endless.
The Virtual Earth platform powers a variety of consumer, enterprise and government applications that enable people to learn, discover and explore a specific location. Virtual Earth powers Windows Live Local, Microsoft’s online local search and mapping web site, but this power can be in your hands too, for any kind of application.
Take your websites and applications to the next level by creating an immersive online mapping and visualization experience with the Virtual Earth platform. If your app is stuck with flat, boring maps, contact us and we’ll help you migrate.
3D capabilities let you see more!
With Virtual Earth's 3D capabilities, it is as if you are actually there! The tour of Chicago below gives you a sense of what you can do with this feature. Get your customers to interact with your map and spend more time on your site!
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Detailed 3D Experiences. With this latest release, the map detail for Las
Vegas, NV; Phoenix, AZ; Dallas, TX; and Denver, CO features improvements in 3D
model accuracy and resolution detail to reveal more buildings, small terrain
features, building textures, and trees that enhance overall realism. This
enhanced 3D map detail will soon roll out to the more than 250 cities where 3D
models are currently available.
Tailored 3D Tours
Media producers can customize video output of 3D fly though tours in six
resolutions, in 15 or 30 frames per second, and can add photos and hide or
display pushpin icons.
Bird’s Eye View in 3D
Easily toggle bird’s eye
view on and off for a seamless experience.
Bird’s Eye Hybrid View
This new map style adds street names to the bird’s
eye maps to provide better visual context and orientation.
New Features in Virtual Earth 6.0 & 6.1
Virtual Earth 6.1 was recently released by Microsoft. Some of the new features include:
Multipoint routing
Route to multiple points for a route instead of just the start and end points, allowing for more complex trip planning.
Rooftop Geocoding
Rooftop Geocoding is now available, resulting in the most precise geocoding results available in the United States today. 40% of the addresses in the United States and counting are currently included
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New Walking Directions.
When traveling on foot in North America and the European
Union, find the most direct route to walk to a destination, ignoring
one-way streets, medians, and other detours that pertain to motor
vehicles.
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New Traffic-based Routing.
Want to take the
frontage road and avoid the highway at rush hour? Choose alternate routes based
on current traffic flows to get there faster.
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New Reverse Geocoding.
In the U.S., find the closest street address based
only on latitude and longitude coordinates from a GPS or other geospatial
device.
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Improved Localized Directions.
Driving and walking directions are now available in 15
languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Italian,
among others.
New Locales. The Virtual Earth dashboard, or
navcontrol, is now localized to support languages including English for
U.S.-based speakers, Japanese, Italian, as well as French for both France and
Canada-based speakers
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