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I was honoured to be invited to come along to the Microsoft Virtual Earth Partner today in beautiful Sonning on the banks of the Thames.  Today I'm going to be talking, well actually more demoing the following things.

My goal with the 25 mins I was given was to really show off the art of the possible when it comes to mapping applications and the Virtual Earth platform.

Agenda:

• 82% of all data in the world has a location component, so what better way to display that data than on a map?
• Photosynth
  • http://labs.live.com/photosynth/view.html?collection=sanmarco/index1.sxs&st=coll
  • Cool Technology
  • Related to Virtual Earth
  • Live labs collaborating with other product groups to help improve features and add new capabilities
  • Last year in October
  • Before you had to switch between 3D mode and Ajax to see the Bird's Eye Imagery - now the same technology used in Photosynth allows us to see the bird's eye imagery in context

• Bird's Eye in 3D
  • http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=skhkx0gzq0qp&style=o&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=15552566&where1=London&encType=1
  • Unique technology to Microsoft
  • Provides different perspective to satellite imagery - I can tell what buildings look like

• Popfly
  • http://www.popfly.com
  • Award winning mashup maker based in Silverlight
  • Build, publish and share your mashups in a visual way
  • Show Twitter Map: http://www.popfly.com/users/MikeGannotti/FirstTwitterMap

• Redfin
  • www.redfin.com
  • Search Palo Alto
  • Mention Region Outline
  • Show Mitchell Park
  • Show Schools

• 3D Modelling
  • Using 3DVia
  • Explain how to download it
  • Help Guide: http://help.live.com/help.aspx?project=das&market=en-us&querytype=keyword&query=qaf
  • Model Great House

• Superbowl Coverage
  • http://www.followthegame.com/
  • Demo
  • Show how they did it

• MapCruncher
  • http://research.microsoft.com/mapcruncher/
  • Free download
  • Reads in your map (jpg, tip etc) the lets you register it with real world
  • Do Microsoft UK Campus Example
  • Other, better examples of Map Crunching: http://research.microsoft.com/mapcruncher/Gallery/

• SportsDo
  • Close Great House 3D map in tab - can only have one 3D VE instance in the browser at one time
  • Show Ski Demo: http://www.sportsdo.net/ActivityView.aspx?sid=8289
  • GPS Tracking, recording the coordinates - plotted onto VE later on

• Xbox360
  • Navigate to Seattle
  • Fly around using xbox 360 controller

• Tesco
  • Store Locator: http://www.tesco.com/storelocator/
  • Search for Reading
  • Click on Reading Extra (#1) - talk about opening hours etc

• Live Quick Apps
  • http://dev.live.com/QuickApps/
  • Shows how you can leverage the Windows Live Services to provide more rich and compelling experiences for your users
  • All code is available to download and reuse! http://codeplex.com/WLQuickApps

• SharePoint web parts now on codeplex
• http://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=tamtam&ReleaseId=10437
• Windows Live Dev Poster
• http://dev.live.com/img/wlp-mix.pdf