Virtual Earth: Adding the 3rd Dimension

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Virtual Earth Adding the 3rd Dimension
Tyler DaveyMVP, Virtual Earth MWS Team Lead,
Virtual Earth Infusion Developmenttdavey_at_infusion
dev.com902 832 2219
November 15, 2006
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About Tyler Davey MVP, Virtual Earth

• 6 years software development experience
• 4 years .NET experience
• 3 years in the geospatial community
• Microsoft MVP, Virtual Earth MapPoint Web
  Service
• Microsoft Certified Application Developer
• Manages team of 11 Virtual Earth and MapPoint
  developers
• Authored most content on http//go.mappoint.net/m
  appointmpac/
• tdavey_at_infusiondev.com

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Agenda

• The Virtual Earth Story
• Virtual Earth v4.0 Going 3D
• Developing Virtual Earth in 3D
• Q A

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The Virtual Earth Story
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The Virtual Earth Story TerraServer

• TerraServer
• Launched in 1998
• Brought Aerial and
• Topographical maps into one site
• Provides free downloads of Aerial
• imagery to customers
• Microsofts first venture into
• Virtual Earth

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The Virtual Earth Story MapPoint Web Service

• MapPoint Web Service
• a.k.a. Vicinity, purchased by Microsoft
• Web service, WS-I Compliant
• Provides static, topographical
• maps
• Maps are rendered on the fly by
• a rendering engine
• Provides geocoding, routing, and
• Points-Of-Interest
• Currently on version 4.4
• and used by over 1000 active
• clients.

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The Virtual Earth Story Virtual Earth the Betas

• What if you could bring the power of aerial with
  the power of MapPoint, and add a touch of AJAX?

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The Virtual Earth Story Virtual Earth the Betas

• Welcome to Birds Eye
• 45 degree views as
• close as 25 yards away
• Launched with over 50
• cities covered
• New map control and
• high resolution coverage
• Additional imagery
• brought online

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The Virtual Earth Story Virtual Earth Goes Live

• VE 3.0 Making the Developer Smile
• Up and running in 10 lines of code
• Single API, all styles and JS located in one
  control
• USA high-resolution coverage expanded
• Route API is brought in
• Polyline API is brought in
• GeoRSS and Windows Live Layers integrated
• Local Live for Outlook, MSN, and other Office
  platforms
• http//dev.live.com launched

ltscript src"http//dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontro
l/v4/mapcontrol.js"gtlt/scriptgt ltscriptgt
var map null function GetMap()
map new VEMap('myMap')
map.LoadMap(new VELatLong(47.6,
-122.33), 10 ,'h' ,false)
lt/scriptgt ltbody onload"GetMap()"gt
ltdiv id'myMap' style"positionrelative
width400px height400px"gtlt/divgt
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The Virtual Earth Story And Gets Accessorized

• Virtual Earth 3.1 Crunching a Map
• MapCruncher comes out of the labs
• Polygons are integrated but not with MapPoint
  Web Service polygons
• New methods for disambiguation
• Australia, Italy, and additional imagery updates

• Virtual Earth 3.2 Adding Images and
  Disambiguation
• Custom disambiguation for addresses
• Canada gets updated!
• Japan in Japanese
• UK update

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Virtual Earth 4 Going 3D
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Virtual Earth 4.0 Going 3D Launching 3D

• November 6, 2006
• Massive marketing campaign
• Code started over two years ago entire 3D
  layering written in house at Microsoft
• Requires installation of ActiveX control (and a
  killer computer)
• Available across the globe, but
• http//local.live.com/

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Virtual Earth 4.0 Going 3D Demo
http//local.live.com
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Programming Virtual Earth 3D
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Summary Call to Action
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Summary Call to Action

• Microsoft is investing heavily in geospatial
  visualization
• Virtual Earth is easy to use and develop
• Simple API, Interactive SDK
• Integrate mapping within your existing
  applications
• 3D and Birds Eye!
• Sign up for a developers account
• Virtual Earth Locate. Integrate. Innovate.

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Summary Call to Action References

• Windows Local Live
• http//local.live.com/
• Windows Live Dev
• http//dev.live.com/
• Via Virtual Earth Community
• http//www.viavirtualearth.com/

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Questions Answers
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