{"id":913,"date":"2008-04-17T17:10:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T00:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/913\/"},"modified":"2008-07-21T07:47:56","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T14:47:56","slug":"virtual-earth-live-maps-the-new-release-of-live-maps-and-virtual-earth-3d-is-now-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/913\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Earth \/ Live Maps: The New Release of Live Maps and Virtual Earth 3D is now Live!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/virtualearth.spaces.live.com\/blog\/cns!2BBC66E99FDCDB98!14129.entry\">Virtual Earth \/ Live Maps: The New Release of Live Maps and Virtual Earth 3D is now Live!<\/a> &#8211; when I was studying for exams this past week, Live Maps, the team I worked with and will be returning to in August, released a major upgrade. Here is what is cool to me, although there is a lot more.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>labels on &#8220;birds-eye&#8221; (oblique) imagery &#8211; this is actually very complex to do, from a technical standpoint, but it makes the imagery much more useful<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/MapCruncher\/\">MapCruncher<\/a> integration. I have played with MapCruncher a lot, it is an amazingly useful tool for putting raster\/PDF maps onto modern web maps, and I have shown it off to a lot of people<\/li>\n<li>better viewing (and RSS feeds!) for user-added items everywhere<\/li>\n<li>improved display of KML files, which is especially important, as KML 2.2 is now an OGC standard geographic data format<\/li>\n<li>walking directions &#8211; people who know me in person know that driving directions aren&#8217;t very useful to me. Unfortunately, walking directions isn&#8217;t on Live Maps now, but it has been <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/virtualearth\/archive\/2008\/04\/11\/walking-directions-sample-in-ve-6-1.aspx\">added to the API<\/a>. So far it only uses a subset of the road network, no foot paths, parks, etc., so hopefully that will be improved upon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Earth \/ Live Maps: The New Release of Live Maps and Virtual Earth 3D is now Live! &#8211; when I was studying for exams this past week, Live Maps, the team I worked with and will be returning to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/913\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[540,512,136],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-livemaps","tag-maps","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}