Yesterday I've attended to a great session by Pedro Rosa on VirtualEarth. Pedro showed us how simple is to integrate with VirtualEarth. Until Pedro publishes his samples, here one from the SDK:
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=6.1">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var map = null;
function GetMap()
{
map = new VEMap('myMap');
map.LoadMap();
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="GetMap();">
<div id='myMap' style="position:relative; width:400px; height:400px;"></div>
</body>
</html>
Couldn't be simpler.
Pedro was polite enough not to mention Google - and this was cool, as VirtualEarth is kicking ass on GoogleMaps.
From his presentation, here is what I found relevant:
- couldn't be simpler to integrate
- lots of business opportunities
- licensing models:
- transaction based
- know user based
- asset tracked based
- transaction based
- VirtualEarth licensing is free for the Portuguese public sector, including public sites
- Portugal is covered with at least 1m precision, maps are updated every 2 years
- major Portuguese Cities have bird's eye support (more than 10, and rising)
- cool tools:
- cool links
- Script#
- Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper
- and last, but not least, Windows Live Quick Apps
- Script#
Pedro will upload his presentation and samples back on his blog at deepdivein.net, so be sure to stay tuned.
[update]
Here it is, as promised (in Portuguese): Virtual Earth - O que podemos fazer com esta nova plataforma?
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