I went to Remix today and found out that the well regarded VirtualEarth brand is now known as ‘Bing Maps‘. I prefer Virtual Earth, but Microsoft were right to bring all their online services together as Bing, if only for the fact it makes it easier to explain.
Yesterday I added 6,000 pushpins to a layer [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Adding airport locations to VirtualEarth, Part 2
June 11, 2009Adding airport locations to VirtualEarth, Part 1
June 10, 2009I am playing with the Virtual Earth Silverlight control, and I wondered how hard it would be to make a quick application that could record my flights around the world?
It turns out the major task is getting a decent list of airport codes with locations! These guys from Holland have a really comprehensive list of [...]
