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MS Virtual Earth Shapefile Overlay, Enhanced Safari Support and More

posted by Satri on Tuesday April 22, @12:04PM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
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Here's some recent Microsoft Virtual Earth related news. There's the information on overlaying data in shapefile format in Virtual Earth, also on the official MS VE blog. Then Microsoft announced Birds Eye view support for Apple's Safari browser, including the iPhone. The VE blog also provides a tutorial for: "In this tutorial I'll show you how to use Live Maps to build a Collection of Waypoints and then export them to your Portable Navigation Device." Note that MapQuest are Garmin planned a similar feature. And finally, an entry on the use of MS Birds Eye view for domestic solar energy estimation.

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  by Satri (3) on Thursday April 24, @12:28PM (#2329)
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  An addendum [live.com] to the link offered in the original story. "These posts lead a number of people to ask me "Is it possible to do the opposite - I want to get a trail from my GPS or Navigation system into Live Maps". No problem - we have had import capability in Live Maps for GeoRSS, KML and GPX files since last year." Answer in the entry.