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re: Augmented Reality Mapping with Bing Maps powered by Silverlight and Seadragon. Microsoft at TED.

JakeSmillie — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:40:38 GMT

Cool video Ed

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re: Bing Maps gets Streetside and much more ... move over Google

ChrisTurton — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:05:48 GMT

No news that I could find on when it comes out of beta. Google search was in beta for 2 years and there other apps even longer. A short interesting article on Google's beta approach ...

www.slate.com/.../2222434

Early comments I see on Bing maps beta are complaints about difficulties running it on Linux machines, or more specifically, running Silverlight on their machine. I have seen a fair few comments on poor performance, in terms of speed, but I'd like to excuse Microsoft on that one because I imagine right now they are getting an unusual number of hits!

re: Bing Maps gets Streetside and much more ... move over Google

edhiggins — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:41:13 GMT

Hi Chris,

I notice when I use Bing maps it says it's a beta, do you know if they going for a Google style continuous beta of this, or is there a 'go live' date when it will be released? I noticed the satellite photos for my area are at least two years old.

Ed H

re: Bing Maps gets Streetside and much more ... move over Google

marc.garraway — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:31:42 GMT

This is an interesting video from the Microsoft PDC 2009. Talks about Bing Maps, Silverlight and Deep Zoom

microsoftpdc.com/.../CL36

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re: Microsoft Live Labs Pivot (No not that Pivot, the other Pivot)

JakeSmillie — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:44:52 GMT

Shaun, for iTunes you could quite easily write something that looks at your iTunes library and passes out cxml like below, try it out:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Collection Name="My Music Collection" SchemaVersion="1.0"
xmlns="schemas.microsoft.com/.../2009"
xmlns:p="schemas.microsoft.com/.../2009"
xmlns:xsi="www.w3.org/.../XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="www.w3.org/.../XMLSchema">
<FacetCategories>
<FacetCategory Name="Albums" Type="String"/>
<FacetCategory Name="Playlists" Type="String"/>
<FacetCategory Name="Artists" Type="String"/>
</FacetCategories>
<Items ImgBase="MyMusic.dzc">
<Item Img="#1" Id="1" Href="C:\Users\Public\Music\Sample Music\Sleep Away.mp3" Name="Sleep Away">
<Description> This is a music song on my local computer</Description>
<Facets>
<Facet Name="Albums">
<String Value="A test Album"/>
</Facet>
<Facet Name="Playlists">
<String Value="A test playlist"/>
</Facet>
<Facet Name="Artists">
<String Value="A test artist"/>
</Facet>
</Facets>
</Item>
<Item Img="#2" Id="2" Href="C:\Users\Public\Music\Sample Music\Kalimba.mp3" Name="Kalimba">
<Description> This is a music song on my local computer</Description>
<Facets>
<Facet Name="Albums">
<String Value="Another test Album"/>
</Facet>
<Facet Name="Playlists">
<String Value="Another test playlist"/>
</Facet>
<Facet Name="Artists">
<String Value="Another test artist"/>
</Facet>
</Facets>
</Item>
</Items>
</Collection>

re: Microsoft Live Labs Pivot (No not that Pivot, the other Pivot)

EdGillett — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:32:18 GMT

And should further point out, no back end here - the client app is it.

How they prep the collection XMLs is another thing - for their Dynamic Collection preparation for the wikipedia collection they are using a lot of CDN distribution and SQL Server querying to serve up a Pivot optimised feed (www.getpivot.com/.../hosting.aspx), generating the SeaDragon image tiles on the fly as well.

re: Microsoft Live Labs Pivot (No not that Pivot, the other Pivot)

EdGillett — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:27:05 GMT

www.getpivot.com/.../xml-schema.aspx

Behold the Schema for the collections, so Data Source is all XML and would be some variety of in memory model, but doubt they've gone to the extent of implementing VertiPaq for this. No idea how far it scales, but there's going to be some limitations purely based on their choice of visualisation as to how many individual elements they can render to the screen.

Note that the UI is heavily influenced by the presence of the filters on that left hand side - they want some intelligent cutting down of the volume to aid in getting to the relevant data first before doing the more visual slicing and dicing.

re: Microsoft Live Labs Pivot (No not that Pivot, the other Pivot)

ShaunRyan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:18:37 GMT

If only iTunes had this :o)

re: Microsoft Live Labs Pivot (No not that Pivot, the other Pivot)

ShaunRyan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:13:44 GMT

This is cool. PowerPivot engine in the back end!?!?!

re: Bing Maps Silverlight Control v1.0 Released

EdGillett — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:04:37 GMT

Excellent stuff. The World Tour is currently assuming that your bandwidth is up to the task of getting those tiles pretty fast as it zooms between locations on the SlideShow.

Whilst you can't adjust the time between locations, you can at least use the Slideshow Controls to pause and move between locations at your own (and your bandwidths!) pace.

Thanks for the fuller overview Matt - feature parity with Google Maps and then some it would seem ...

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