See More, Do More with Microsoft Virtual Earth

Announcing the Latest Release of Microsoft Virtual Earth!

See what's new in Virtual Earth 6.2:

  • New mobile support: Rich imagery optimized for mobile devices.
  • Enhanced international opportunities: More support and detail for more countries.
  • Richer data: New geocoding and parsing improvements – over 85 million addresses.
  • Enhanced functionality: More ways to search for more types of mapping information.
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A Richer Mapping Experience—Wherever Your Customers Are

Create engaging applications for your customers and develop powerful ways to visualize business information by combining online maps with your integrated data.

 

The Virtual Earth platform offers:

  • The same rich, robust, customizable imagery available on mobile devices and on the desktop.
  • Broader international mapping capabilities, including localized maps in English, Italian, Spanish, French, and German for Western Europe, and increased parsing elsewhere globally.
  • Richer data, including more than 70% of all U.S. rooftops included, as well as enhanced features like pushpin clustering, landmark-based routing, and more.
  • Enhanced functionality, including the new Virtual Earth Web Services API, which offers mobile-optimized static map images, direct map tile access, one-box search functionality, geocoding, reverse geocoding, and routing.

 

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Connect with Customers
Virtual Earth Strengthens Customer Connections Add to your growing customer base with services that can help you increase site traffic, build community, and strengthen customer relationships. Use Virtual Earth maps to display and share location-based information. Virtual Earth Platform Benefits for Business Divider
Visualize Your Business
Grow Your Business Solutions with Virtual Earth Solutions Integrate data from nearly any source into Virtual Earth maps to gain deep visual insight into your business and build business solutions. Supported data sources include:
  • SQL or other databases
  • GeoRSS third-party data feeds
  • GPS locators
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Customer Showcase
VISA
VISA is connecting customers with services more effectively using Virtual Earth ATM locator.

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Fidelity
Fidelity National delivers an unprecedented user experience with the help of rich imagery and data layering capabilities from Virtual Earth.

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Harley-Davidson
The Harley-Davidson “Great Roads Explored” uses Virtual Earth to showcase dealerships and hotel partners, and to bring customers together within the context of great American motorcycle journeys.

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Target
Target helps drive store traffic and effective connections with customers by pinpointing store locations using Virtual Earth.

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British Petroleum
After Hurricane Katrina, BP developed a Hurricane Management System that combines Virtual Earth's 3D satellite imagery, mapping software, and real-time weather data to help stakeholders visualize company assets.

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City Of Miami
The City of Miami chose Microsoft Virtual Earth mapping software to develop online applications that provide enhanced public safety response, urban planning, and tourism services.

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VISA
VISA is connecting customers with services more effectively using Virtual Earth ATM locator.

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