Virtual Earth Image Viewer

Virtual Earth is a great tool for viewing geo-spatial information on a map. It offers great user experience by being able to pan and zoom the map. Sometimes you may wish you could do this with a static image of your own. In Silverlight you can use DeepZoom to do this but doing this in…

Bird’s eye Routes

It was recently brought to my attention that routes are not supported in the Bird’s eye map view. Some how this slipped by me as I swear I’ve seen it working before. After some thought I suspect that this has to do with possible accuracy issues. A few releases ago a new map method was…

VE 3D Flight Simulator Version 1.1

After having such a huge positive response from many people about the Virtual Earth 3D flight simulator I built a couple of weeks ago I decided to make some enhancements to it. The enhancements were mainly focused around improved controls for a XBox controller. I have overridden the default XBox controls that are, by default,…