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NYC Transit Adopts Virtual Earth

posted by lxnyce on Tuesday February 12, @11:38PM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the Governments-love-Virtual-Earth dept.

Virtual Earth For Government blog reports the following : "Arguably the largest transit in the world, New York City Transit, today announced that it has released a new version of its Trip Planner online travel itinerary service. The service, which allows visitors and residents to get walking directions for their travel itinerary within the City, now features Virtual Earth maps, providing a much richer visualization experience. "

For a more detailed summary and a link to the press release, please visit the Virtual Earth For Government blog.

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• OSMify on VE/Live maps

  (Score:2, Interesting)

  by mcknut (1461) on Wednesday February 13, @03:59AM (#2194)

  I was glad to see that this works with my OSMify bookmarklet to display Open Street Map maps on top of the VE maps. I haven't posted a new blog entry about it yet but OSMify now works with implementations of Google, Multimap and Virtual Earth APIs:
  
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