Microsoft Virtual Earth to Be Offered With ESRI’s ArcGIS Online Servic

submitted by crpietschmann 3 months, 24 days ago

microsoft.com — Microsoft Corp. and ESRI today announced that ESRI ArcGIS users will have access to the robust mapping and imagery content provided by the Microsoft Virtual Earth platform inside ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Server. With Virtual Earth seamlessly integrated into ArcGIS 9.3 Desktop, ArcGIS users are now able to easily add base maps, which feature rich aerial and hybrid views, to perform data creation, editing, analysis, authoring and map publishing with one-click access. read more...

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Calculate Distance Between Geocodes in C# and JavaScript

published 9 months, 18 days ago, submitted by crpietschmann 9 months, 19 days ago

pietschsoft.com — There are times when I need code to calculate the distance between two geocodes (Lat/Long points). I don't need it very often and until now I didn't have a code snippet that I could jus copy and paste. I was searching and found Rob Conery's LINQ and Geocoding post. It's an interesting post and he includes a sample of how to use Lambda expressions in C# 3.0 to calculate the distance between two geocodes in Miles. I decided to copy his code snippet and make sure it works in .NET 2.0 and also convert it to JavaScript. read more...

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An Englishman In Google Maps

kwinchcombe.blogspot.com — Kevin explains why it’s not as simple as you would think to plot Ordnance Survey Grid References on Google Maps. Fortunately he also provides an excellent solution to this problem. read more...

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