Johannes Kebeck's Blog
04-11-2008, 03:30 AM
<p>We just released version 6.1. of the Virtual Earth API. <a href="http://virtualearth.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2BBC66E99FDCDB98!14129.entry">Steve Lombardi</a> and <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2008/04/11/new-virtual-earth-api-release-virtual-earth-6-1.aspx">Chris Pendleton</a> have blogged about the new Features so I will cut it short and concentrate on those features which surface through the API.
<h4>Bird's Eye Hybrid</h4>
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<h4>Vegetation in 3D</h4>
<h4>Walking Directions</h4>
<h4>Precision-property for VEPlace-object</h4>
<h4>Other New Features and Enhancements</h4> <ul> <li>Switch to disable Bird's Eye imagery <li>Enhanced support for the Safari browser <li>Staging environment for Customer Identification (transaction counting). See also <a title="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb924353.aspx" href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb924353.aspx">http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb924353.aspx</a> <li>Better printing support <li>Traffic based routing (only in the US) <li>Reverse geocoding (only in the US). Please note: enterprise customers can also use MapPoint Web Service which is part of the Virtual Earth Platform. In MapPoint Web Service we have reverse geocoding for all countries where we support geocoding.</ul> <div style="padding-right:0px;display:inline;padding-left:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin:0px;padding-top:0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Virtual Earth" rel=tag>Virtual Earth</a></div><img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=4819404664324524694&page=RSS%3a+What's+new+in+Virtual+Earth+version+6. 1%3f&referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""><img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&NA=1149&PI=73329&RF=&DI=3919&PS=85545&TP=johanneskebeck.spaces.live.com>1=JohannesKebeck">
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<h4>Bird's Eye Hybrid</h4>
( Click here to view the article with screenshots. (http://JohannesKebeck.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!42E1F70205EC8A96!3858.entry) )
<h4>Vegetation in 3D</h4>
<h4>Walking Directions</h4>
<h4>Precision-property for VEPlace-object</h4>
<h4>Other New Features and Enhancements</h4> <ul> <li>Switch to disable Bird's Eye imagery <li>Enhanced support for the Safari browser <li>Staging environment for Customer Identification (transaction counting). See also <a title="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb924353.aspx" href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb924353.aspx">http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb924353.aspx</a> <li>Better printing support <li>Traffic based routing (only in the US) <li>Reverse geocoding (only in the US). Please note: enterprise customers can also use MapPoint Web Service which is part of the Virtual Earth Platform. In MapPoint Web Service we have reverse geocoding for all countries where we support geocoding.</ul> <div style="padding-right:0px;display:inline;padding-left:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin:0px;padding-top:0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Virtual Earth" rel=tag>Virtual Earth</a></div><img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=4819404664324524694&page=RSS%3a+What's+new+in+Virtual+Earth+version+6. 1%3f&referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""><img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&NA=1149&PI=73329&RF=&DI=3919&PS=85545&TP=johanneskebeck.spaces.live.com>1=JohannesKebeck">
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