Virtual Earth For Public Sector

This aerial view in the Boulder, CO area was brought to my attention. Clearly this property is owned by an extremely intelligent person who recognizes advanced technology when they see it.

I would be even more impressed if it were the Virtual Earth logo!

Frequently we get requests from customers interested in learning more about how to actually code with our Virtual Earth application program interface (API). As simple as we try to make developing solutions with Microsoft Virtual Earth, having someone show you how to do it always makes good sense. One of our peers on the DPE team in Microsoft Public Sector, Marc Schweigert, hosted a webcast a while back during which he walked the audience through developing applications using the Virtual Earth API.  Here is the session description and you can also watch the webcast that has been recorded in Microsoft Events:

The Virtual Earth Platform is an integrated set of services that combines unique  imagery with best-of-breed mapping, location and search functionality. It enables governments to deliver innovative solutions and breakthrough customer experiences. With the Virtual Earth platform, organizations can create an immersive experience that enables consumers to easily discover, search, and visualize business location data and locally relevant information. Take your websites and applications to the next level by integrating the Virtual Earth Platform to deliver the highly visual and locally relevant information consumers care about most.

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The Microsoft Virtual Earth product team has added another 22 TB of data to the Virtual Earth platform and published to the Live Search Maps site. Highlights in this release include medium resolution imagery of France, additional UltraCam aerial views in Japan (as well as in North America), Bird’s Eye imagery in Canada and Australia, more GeoEye 1 meter satellite imagery in India, and several areas of the US updated with 0.5m aerial imagery.

Here's the list:

15 cm Aerial Orthophoto Views

• Pueblo, CO
• Wilmington, DE
• St. Joseph, MO
• Graceland, TN
• Memphis, TN
• Mesquite, TX
• Burlington, VT
• Yokohama, Japan
• Kawasaki, Japan
• Setagaya, Japan
• Halton/Toronto, Ontario
• Hamilton, Canada
• PhnomPenh, Cambodia
• Reykavik, Iceland
  

.5m Aerial Orthophoto Views

• Albuquerque/Santa Fe, NM
• Augusta, GA
• Charlotte, NC
• Columbia, SC
• El Paso, TX
• Florida Southwest Coast, FL
• Ocala-Gainesville, FL
• Gulfport, MS
• Knoxville, TN
• Myrtle Beach, SC
• Nashville, TN
• OklahomaCity, OK
• Panama City, FL
• Pensacola, FL
• San Francisco, CA
• St Cloud, MN
• Tampa Bay, FL

2.5m Aerial Orthophoto Views
          

• Mainland France, plus Corsica
• Guadeloupe
• Saint Barthelemy
• Martinique
• French Guiana (coastline and most borders)
• Reunion
• Saint Pierre et Miquelon

Bird's Eye Views (North America)  
  

• Pickens County, AL
• Smith Co, MS
• Lancaster Metro, PA
• Suburban St. Louis, MO
• Tate Co, MS
• Areas NW of Birmingham, AL
• Olmstead Co, MN
• Tunica Co, MS
• Tallahatchie Co, MS
• Yalobusha Co, MS
• Lawrence Co, PA
• Hinds Co, MS
• Mississippi Metro
• Douglas Co, KS
• Eau Claire, WI
• Black Hawk Co, IA
• Minnehaha Co, SD
• Pasco Co, FL
• Pitt Co, NC
• Johnson Co, IA
• Charlotte Co, FL
• Boulder, CO
• Pueblo, CO
• Yellowstone Co, MT
• Woodbury Co, IA
• Pennington Co, SD
• Merrimack Co, NH
• Fulton Co, GA

Bird's Eye Views (Canada)

• Calgary, Alberta
• Toronto, Ontario
• Toronto, Ontario
• Montreal, Quebec
• Victoria, BC
• Edmonton, Alberta
• Vancouver, BC

Bird's Eye Views (Australia)
            

• Gold Coast, Australia
• Sydney, Australia
• Hobart, Australia
• Wollongong, Australia

Bird's Eye Views (Europe)

• Aberdeen, UK
• Edinburgh, UK
• Dunfermline, UK
• Cumbernauld, UK
• Falkirk, UK
• East Kilbride, UK
• Dundee, UK
• Crawley, UK
• Glasgow, UK
• Liverpool, UK
• Las Palmas, Spain
• Telde, Spain
• Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
• Den Helder, Netherlands
• Ruhrgebiet Region, Germany
• Ruhrgebiet Region, Germany
• London, UK (reflights)
• Ruhrgebiet Region, Germany
• Berlin, Germany
• Agrinion, Greece
• Chalkida, Greece
• Chania, Greece
• Drama, Greece
• Ioannina, Greece
• Kalamata, Greece
• Iraklion, Greece
• Katerini, Greece
• Kavala, Greece
• Lamia, Greece
• Larnia, Greece
• Serres, Greece
• Trikala, Greece
• Patra, Greece
• Volos, Greece

GeoEye Satellite Orthophoto Views
              

• Baker_Island, USA
• The Alhambra in Grenada, Spain
• Ahmadabad, India
• Pune, India
• Bhopal, India
• Timbuktu, Mali
• Bhudaneswar, India
• Indore, India
• Patna, India
• Nagpur, India
• Bangalore, India
• Calcutta, India
• New_Delhi, India
• Bombay, India
• Hyderabad, India
• Jaipur, India
• Kanpur, India
• Madras, India

Microsoft Virtual Earth partner IDV Solutions is offering free 2 day training for customers interested in building mapping applications using the Virtual Earth platform and IDV's Visual Fusion offering. The offer provides personal training for up to 6 attendees at IDV's office and enables attendees who successfully complete the training to build and maintain an application within just a few hours.

The offer, valued at $12,500, will be fully explained in a webinar that IDV will host May 14, 2008, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ((GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)). The webinar will also provide participants with a better understanding of the applicability of Virtual Earth and Visual Fusion to address public sector customer's needs for enhanced clarity and collaboration around critical business data.

The registration for the webinar can found on IDV's web site here: http://www.idvsolutions.com/federaloffer2008.aspx