Welcome to the virtual pressroom for Microsoft® Virtual Earth™. The Virtual Earth Business Unit at Microsoft Corp. delivers location technology for a wide range of personal and business computing. With products and Web sites featuring the Virtual Earth platform, customers are assured of high-quality maps and data, accurate routing, and easy-to-use location services anywhere, anytime. Below you will find links to useful information on Virtual Earth technology. | • | MapPoint 2006 enables businesses to easily analyze, visualize and communicate business information using maps and geographical information. | | • | MapPoint Location Server is a component of MapPoint Web Service that allows the integration of real-time location into business applications. It provides access to location providers such as mobile network operators and acts as a proxy between applications and the MapPoint Web Service. | | • | MapPoint Web Service is an XML-based Web service that enables developers to integrate location-based services, such as maps, driving directions and proximity searches, into their applications and business processes. | | • | Windows Live™ Local powered by Virtual Earth™ is an exciting new component of Microsoft’s Search vision that gives consumers a deeply immersive search experience where they see what it’s like to be in a location and explore what they can do there. | | • | Pocket Streets 2005 is an inexpensive way to take customizable maps on the go and find points of interest on demand with Windows Mobile Devices. | | • | Streets & Trips 2009 mapping and trip planning software offers consumers maps, points of interest, routes, and driving directions for the US and Canada as well as Pocket PC compatibility. |
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