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Advertising Opportunities on Live Search Maps

If you've ever been on Live Search Maps, there's a good chance you've seen some of the advertisements we display on the site. I figured it was time to dive a little deeper into the opportunities that...

Subscribing to a KML file via RSS

Here’s another super helpful trick to make it easy to keep up on news events being reported via KML. Ideally, timely information with a Geographic component would be published via GeoRSS feeds which...

Google Maps: We’re not evil, just not very good

Apparently there’s been a bit of a stir around what Google Maps did/didn’t do to their maps of the country of Georgia.  In a blog post today, Google says they haven’t done anything to their maps...

Puzzling GPS reference in the New York Times today

Unfortunately, there’s not much you can do with the G.P.S. According to Apple, the iPhone’s G.P.S. antenna is much too small to emulate the turn-by-turn navigation of a G.P.S. unit for a vehicle, for...

Open Street Map coming to Seattle

There’s a mapping party in Seattle July 26th to help build out Open Street Maps’s (OSM) coverage here.  If you’re in the Seattle area that day stop by to contribute to this fantastic resource....

Live Search Maps Improves Internationally

Another big day for Virtual Earth in the portal space. Granted, it's our own search portals but it's great to see the platform getting more use and exposure worldwide. Live Search Maps China has...

Live Maps updated in China

A big update to http://ditu.live.com/ went out yesterday featuring real time traffic information in Beijing and a free Send to Mobile feature for local search results and transit information. Transit...

Virtual Earth and Live Search Maps Vintage Educational Videos

Catherine Heller and I did these videos last year for Channel 10 and for some reason I never found out they were published...until today. They're still valid (for the most part) though much has...

China Central Television partners with Virtual Earth

This brief mail came to me this AM from Vincent Tao who leads many of Microsoft's mapping and GIS initiatives in China - CCTV (China Central Television) is the largest Chinese Broadcasting...

Stamen Design delivers More innovation in UI for Trulia

Whether my subjective opinion of their projects is positive or negative, I'm always intrigued by the work of Stamen Designs. Like a piece of art, i don't always know how to feel about it on first...