Announcing trueSpace for Virtual Earth 3D Development

submitted by wisemx 1 month, 15 days ago

blogs.msdn.com — Today is a big day. BIG DAY. As you'll recall, several months ago we acquired Caligari because of their advanced 3D toolset - trueSpace (among other assets). I've always felt sketchy about other 3D freeware, so starting today trueSpace 7.6 is now available for download.....FOR FREE! And, there is a direct connection into Live Search Maps so you can create SUPER high resolution 3D models using trueSpace, then right from the environment upload the model into Live Search Maps as a collection item. Once you've created your collection, you can import your collection into your Virtual Earth application and BAM you have your own custom 3D models in your Virtual Earth application. We'll host the models right in our 3D collections cloud! This is going to be a long post - get some coffee and make it diesel. Register and Download trueSpace 7.6 for free. read more...

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Gold Coast : WPF and Virtual Earth revisited

submitted by crpietschmann 2 months, 13 days ago

blogs.msdn.com — I worked on a more creative/reusable approach to hosting Virtual Earth in a WPF application. If you have looked at any of my previous samples showing how to host Virtual Earth in a WPF app, you'll recall I was using the WinForms WebBrowser control to host an html page that in turn hosts Virtual Earth. Additionally, I used the WebBrowser control's ability to enable communication between managed code and JavaScript. One of the frustrations with this approach is that when using WinForms interop, all WinForms controls take the highest z-order in your app which means you cannot render WPF elements on top of the map. The other thing that has always bothered me about my sample is although it showed how to implement the general approach, it did not wrap all the functionality into a reusable WPF Virtual Earth control. Good news! I have an updated sample. read more...

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Plot ZipCode Boundaries on Map: Part1 - Make sense of U.S. Census Data

submitted by crpietschmann 2 months, 18 days ago

pietschsoft.com — The data I'll focus on here is the Census 2000 5-Digit ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) in ARC/INFO Ungenerate (ASCII) format. Even though these files are in their own "special" format, described here, they are still just plain ASCII and easily converted into CSV files to be imported into a database. Well, you could look at the ARC/INFO Generate (ASCII) Metadata Cartographic Boundary File Format definition and write a parser that then saves in in a CSV format. Or, you could just download and use the one I wrote for this article. read more...

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Virtual Earth + Silverlight Deepzoom (some Examples + Source Code)

blogs.msdn.com — Some great examples of Virtual Earth + Silverlight Deepzoom! read more...

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Silverlight Virtual Earth, Part 3 Project “Deep Earth” launches

soulsolutions.com.au — Today we launched project “Deep Earth” on codeplex. This open source project will bring together skills from developers all over the world to continue this concept and ultimately create a useable Silverlight control. Seven people have joined the fun: Shaun Becker, Jonas Follesø, Bronwen Zande, Darko Radiceski, Nicolas Boonaert, Rob Farley and myself John O’Brien. What a great mix of people! read more...

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Silverlight Virtual Earth, Part 1 using Deep Zoom - Sample

submitted by crpietschmann 2 months, 27 days ago

soulsolutions.com.au — Silverlight and Virtual Earth are made for each other, but how best do we go about creating a Virtual Earth control in Silverlight? First up lets look at utilising the existing Deep Zoom control to serve up the base image tiles. In this proof of concept we have little more then a stock MultiScaleImage control hooked up to some appropriately created configuration XML, the output is only 6.8KB for the client! And check out the results on video: read more...

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VE Sessions at Where 2.0

submitted by crpietschmann 3 months, 17 days ago

blogs.msdn.com — Chris' session was a deep dive on the Virtual Earth Platform and goes into some details about our UltraCam digital aerial camera that we use to capture imagery. He also talks about how we create 3D models and some cool demos as well on Virtual Earth. Finally he does the Silverlight VE control demo that he showed at MIX 08. Steve's session went deep on the Collections stuff that he works on in the Virtual Earth team. He also showed some of his favorite Map Cruncher Collection demos as well as others. There's also a little surprise at the end of this video that if you were around three years ago when Virtual Earth was created you might have seen. read more...

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Virtual Earth 3D: Installing Plug-Ins

submitted by crpietschmann 4 months, 4 days ago

blogs.msdn.com — Some types of plug-ins feature special data or rendering, and are intended to be used with a particular website. Others are intended to enhance the experience of all websites, and run every time a user runs VE3D. Most of the samples given so far have been about the former, where the test html page references the plug-in you wish to load. Today we’ll talk about the latter. In addition, there is currently a limitation that plug-ins must be installed in the GAC in order to run. This is true regardless of what category the plug-in falls under. End users of a plug-in will need a way of installing the plug-in. Fortunately writing an installer is easy with Visual Studio. read more...

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