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What is the role of virtual earth platform?

Virtual earth platform offers us innovative new capabilities. Virtual earth platform is very useful for many businesses.

Is there new addition of imagery in virtual earth?

Yes, there is addition of new imagery in virtual earth. 28 3D cities are inserted which include United States Edmonton, France, Tokyo and Japan Miami Beach. There is also addition of 85 cities having high-resolution imagery, which include Mexico Jerusalem, Portland, United states Acapulco, and Israel. There is addition of five new countries having bird’s eye imagery support. These countries include cities such as Sweden Copenhagen, Denmark, Madrid and Spain Stockholm.

How much rooftop geocoding virtual earth include?

Virtual earth includes 40% rooftop geocoding in US and it includes 90% geocoding in Japan.

Is 6.0 version of virtual earth compatible with other version?

6.0 version of virtual earth is compatible with 5.0 versions of virtual earth

Is virtual earth gives support for KML?

On maps live.com virtual earth’s consumer version gives support to Keyhole Markup Language but it does not give support through API.

What types of data will commercial customers receive in reports?

Reports are consist of transaction counts per day which are broken by APIs for a given date

How can commercial customers get access for truncation reports?

They can access reports through CSS website

Does virtual earth include construction information for traffic?

No, version 6.0 does not include the construction information for traffic

Is virtual earth platform and map point web service differing from each other?

Virtual earth platform provides us various innovative capabilities. The virtual earth platform is not a brand name but it signifies a richer offering for all industries. Developer have the flexibility to tap into any one of the virtual earth API like using SOAP XML application for communicating with customer applications and virtual earth map control which allows users for making request through JavaScript into AJAX map object.

Is Microsoft is going to continue for investing in MWS or it will force customer for migrating to VE?

The present application are built by making use of MapPoint web service API which will continue to function in usual way but without experiencing any kind of changes to the service. Microsoft will constantly provide high-quality support for MapPoint web service customers. If any customer has the application, which is built with Map Point web service and if he is interested to enhance that with new imagery features which are available in virtual earth map control then Microsoft offers a collection of resources and tools so that he can enhance that application with new imagery features.

What are the advantages of virtual earth platform for customers?

The virtual earth platform offers customers powerful mapping, unique imagery, cost-effective investment, simple and flexible programming and search capabilities. Virtual earth platform is made for enabling to various consumers, government applications, and enterprise. Virtual earth platform also provides you hosting services. Virtual earth platform is a collection of services through which developers and enterprise construct applications having location as well as map-based search functionality.

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