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Showcase sites


MyHome Great real estate site that uses the VE engine to show what is available in the Australian market.

Your Movies This site uses VE to show the location of cinemas.

Your Bars Another Australian site that is using the VE engine.

Your Restaurants Top Australian restaurant guide that is using the same "VirtualEarth" engine that powers Windows Live Local.

Collections


Every Nandos Store in Australia Credit goes to Paul Woods again.

Starbucks Stores in Australia Collection of Starbucks stores around Australia, created by PaulWoods: http://paul-woods.typepad.com/paul_woods

3 Mobile phone dealers

Blue Mountains restaurants

Sydney Traffic Cameras

Recommended sites


VE Interactive SDK The Interactive SDK gives you a new way of learning how to use the Microsoft Virtual Earth map control APIs.

Microsoft's Virtual Earth homepage Info on how to integrate VE into your own applicaitons.

Windows Live Local/Virtual Earth Space The official Windows Live Local/Virtual Earth Space.

Pass the POI http://www.passthepoi.com

Birds Eye Tourist Catalog of nice BE maps.

MSDN MapPoint Center Microsoft's official developer center for VE and MWS coders

ViaVirtualEarth Info for developers who want to integrate VE into their own applications.

Windows Live Local, Australia

Windows Live Local has arrived in Australia. You can now navigate all around the world, with detailed imagery, mapping and places of interest in Australia.

If you are planning to see the cricket in Adelaide, you could use Windows Live Local for the following:

- find a hotel

- find a Thai restaurant

- get directions from Adelaide to Glenelg

- plan after-match drinks with your friends in Windows Live Messenger

Some basics

The navigation widget allows you to zoom in and out, scroll around the map and switch between road and aerial view:

Use the mouse and keyboard to move around
Live Local support click-and-drag type navigation to move around. You can use your mouse wheel to zoom in and out. You can also use the arrow keys to move around.

Come back again soon,
Wolfy

Blog

October 17

Spyk property search

Have a look at www.spyk.com - an amazing new website dedicated to finding that dream home. It's powered by the "Virtual Earth" mapping engine and is by far my favourite real estate site, even in its early development stage. The simplicity of the product is what I think makes it a standout.

Gone is the ad-clutter and noise of the more popular real estate websites, and in is the super-simple map-based property search.

I am really looking forward to how this product will evolve over the next few months. An excellent example of how Virtual Earth can be used to power map-based web services. Well done Spyk team!

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September 21

Creating areas on Live Local maps

You can now create, save and share areas on a map.

Here's how:

1. Click on the "Collections" link so your scratchpad is visible.

2. At the bottom on the scratpad, click on the "mark an area" tool:

3. Start defining your area by clicking on the map:

4. Double-click on the final pin to finish and save:

5. You can create many areas, lines and pushpins and add them to your collections. When you are done, click on the "save" link in your scratchpad:

6. Give your collection a name and add notes as required. If you want to share your collection with friends, dont forget to tick the "public" box.

7. Share your collection!

Tips:

Moving "nodes" - click on the area, then mouse over the node you want to move. Click on it and drag it to the desired position.

Deleting "nodes" - right-click on the node you wish to delete.