Microsoft Virtual Earth API

Name	Description
3D Geology Maps	This site combines geologic information with Virtual Earth 3D maps to create a colorful and informative view of the topography of several western states.
Adobe Flex Developers Jobs Board	The Mashup allows you to search for Adobe Flex developer jobs based on your Zip code. Also you can SMS a job posting to your cell phone.
Adventure Works Resorts	The Adventure Works site is a demonstration of what the Windows Live Platform can do for businesses providing social network capabilities to their customers.
Air Force Recruiter Locator	This is a mashup of U.S. Air Force recruiter office locations with a Virtual Earth map.
Aircraft Flight Tracking Demo	Demonstration that tracks a private aircraft anywhere in the world via Iridium satellite network.
Ajax Map Comparison	Map Compare allows you to evaluate which mapping service is best. All three maps are locked together so panning, zooming and changing map types will effect all maps the same. You can also use the tab pane to try out various map features.
AlertNet	Display crisis hotspots on a world map and retrieve latest news on each crisis from Reuters.
America 24/7	MSN Virtual Earth used to plot photos from the America 24/7 project.
BC Ferries	This website uses Virtual Earth mapping technologies and real-time GPS location data to display the current locations of all ferryboats in the fleet. Click on the thumbnail map of a specific route to view a larger map with current ship status.
Beanatomics Traffic	Links the traffic information from the Yahoo Traffic site and places the locations on a Virtual Earth map.
Burien Streetcar Line	Overlay of 1923 map on Virtual Earth using MapCruncher. Shows the history of Seattle Municipal Railway's Division C, the streetcar line that once connected Burien with White Center and Seattle.
Butterfly Member Map	Mashup of members of the Live Butterfly members.
California School Finder	Compare California schools side-by-side in Virtual Earth with the school rankings, course offerings, and other details. The information provided on this website comes from the California Department of Education.
CATA Earth	Plots CATA (Centre Area Transportation Authority) bus route and timetable information within the map interface.
CataList Home Foreclosures	Mashes up MLS home listings with bank-owned property records to flag active listings as bank-owned. Allows the bargain-hunter buyer to identify homes for sale owned by a bank.
Catalist Homes California	Real estate search for Southern California. Search for properties meeting specific criteria. Hover over a specific property on the map to reveal address and price.
CelebFavorites.com	Click on the photo of celebrities like Anna Kournikova, Jeff Bridges and Alex Rodriguez to his or her favorite restaurants, hotels, parks, concert venues, and museums in the cities they call home.
College Finder	Vertical search for US Colleges and Universities. The site includes in-depth information such as tuition cost and retention information on over seven-thousand schools. Check out a birds-eye view of the colleges.
Commercial Property Finder	Search for commercial properties that are for sale across the United States.
Compare Maps	Compare the two mapping systems. As you move around one map, the other moves also. This site also contains a search as provided by our very own Dr. Neil.
Contoso Bicycle Club	This is a demo site for the Windows Live Platform showing how organizations can use the Windows Live online services. Integrates Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live and Microsoft Virtual Earth, and all content comes from Spaces.
Contoso ISV	A professional services demo website using the Windows Live platform services. Customers can interact with sales staff via Messenger and staff can schedule an appointment using an activity that integrates Virtual Earth and LiveAlerts.
Contoso University	Demo site built by the Windows Live Platform team for an education scenario. Allows students to view education social content, list their friends, and see their location on campus. Source code available.
CribQ Rental Housing Dashboard	CribQ.com adds tools and context to Craigslist rental housing listings. More than a map it adds features like birdseye views, walkability ratings, notes, and hotlists. Built using 5 APIs including Rentometer and Amazon services.
Cybergolf	Golfing enthusiasts can search for golf courses on a Virtual Earth map. Select a course and reserve tee times. This mashup combines data from Cybergolf, weatherforyou.com, and other sources to provide a comprehensive golf planning experience.
Cyberhomes	Homes for sale plus research tool for discovering regional or individual home sales statistics, neighborhood and school information.
Deki Wiki	DekiWiki, a popular wiki designed to help users quickly create mashups. Integrates various third party web APIs.
Detroit History	Overlays historical aerial photographs of Detroit over current imagery to demonstrate change over time. The site features aerial imagery from 1949, 52, 56, 61, 76, 81, 97, 2005 and 06.
Dirtbike Locator	Site developed to help dirt bike riders find places and people to enjoy their sport.
Do My Sport	Virtual Earth Mashup to help find sports location and event in your area. You can find out about the sports you are interested in and event arrange a meeting of your own at your favourite location. Make new friends who do the same sports as you.
Docklands Rail Dublin	Docklands Station in Dublin. This map with contours that represent the 3-minute walking time bands from the new station.
dsSearchAgent	MLS IDX mapping solution for real estate professionals. The link currently shows housing data from SoCalMLS, but housing data from many other MLSs across the country is also available for real estate agents / brokers licensed in those respective areas.
Earthplacemarks	A large collection of placemarks from all around the world. See multiple satellite views, birds eye view, Google Earth and photo galleries. Get directions to popular locations.
EasyJet	Choose a destination city, arrival, and departure date and view your choices in a map overlay of the city.
eBay + Virtual Earth	Puts eBay searches on a MSN Virtual Earth Map. It will try to locate your zip automatically. It works in the USA, UK, France and Germany.
eBay in MSN Messenger	Shop on eBay as you chat. eBay searches are displayed on a MSN Virtual Earth Map. Map is syncronized between the two users. Click on items on map to display balloon with more information.
ebay mapper	Turbo charge your eBay search experience. Use filters and sorts to dynamically update the search criterion and see the live results. In less than 5 minutes get to exactly what you are looking for.
Elevation Demo	Click any location on the map to know its elevation.
eppraisal.com	A real estate site that gives you quick and easy access to information on any property in the US. eppraisal.com data is updated daily and pulls from a database of about 70 million homes. Integrated maps and estimated home valuations.
ESRI Shapefile Viewer	Plots shapefiles on Virtual Earth maps.
Experience Washington	Helps you find accommodations, events, activities, and things to do when planning a vacation or outing in Washington State. Locations and details of each activity are superimposed on a Virtual Earth map.
Find Parking via ParkingCarma	Mashup of events from Upcoming.org with local parking facilities. Advanced reservations are also possible at some locations.
Flash Earth	Zoomable mashup of Google Maps, Virtual Earth and other satellite imagery through a Flash application. Try rotating the compass or building a permanent link to a location.
flickrmania	GeoTag Flickr-Photos via GPS track file. Start tracking-mode on your gps-device, go on a phototour, share your photos by flickr and Geotag them.
Flight Simulator	Flight Simulator built using Microsoft Virtual Earth maps.
Flight Simulator SkyConnect	Sky Connect Mission Management Unit provides GPS tracking, satellite telephone, and text messaging capabilities in flight. Data is transferred between aircraft and Sky Connect via the 66 low-orbit satellites in the Iridium satellite network.
FrenSync	FrenSync.com is a platform for users, the frens, to collaborate and disseminate information readily using maps,photos,tags and videos. It provides many features such as SnapShots and SyncLinks to allow users to share through personal blogs and websites.
Fresh Logic Atlas	A stylish mashup that helps you find information on gas prices, movies, restaurants, traffic, local events, WiFi locations, driving directions, and more on a Virtual Earth map.
GeotagIt	This is a mashup that allows you to visualize geotagged resources on a map. Import your del.icio.us posts or Flickr photos, share your collections and read RSS feeds.
Gloposis	Real-time GPS-GPRS navigation, GPS tracking, and Internet position exchange system for Windows PCs and Windows Mobile PocketPC devices.
Golf Earth	Interactive birds eye view of several famous golf clubs. You can use both Google Maps and Virtual Earth.
GPX Plotter	Plots points and tracks from GPX files onto Virtual Earth maps.
Gregs Person/Place Navigator	A contacts page for a personal website. Essentially, it's a place where people can add their information or interesting places they've been to a database.
Gym Alliance	A Virtual Earth ajax client for locating Gym Alliance fitness clubs. Has search, direction control, the table updates when you mouse-over the club pushpins. If you click through to a specific club, it also provides driving directions.
Harley-Davidson Great Roads Explorer	This mashup combines great motorcycling routes on a map along with route information, trip length, and locations of nearest H-D dealerships and Best Western Hotels.
Hide and Seek	Hide and Seek is a game for MSN Messenger. One player hides in a MSN Virtual Earth Map and the other has to find him. He can ask 20 questions to help clue-in.
Horsham Town	Has Virtual Earth with new custom high-resolution images for the Horsham, UK town centre. An entire urban area that has its Virtual Earth images updated. Also has Flash to play audio and display images that are streamed on demand.
Hotmap	Hotmap is a visualization of how users have interacted with Virtual Earth. Points on the map get hotter as more people have looked at them.
Hurricane Rita Tracking App	Plotted current and predicted positions of Hurricane Rita over the days as it approached landmass. The most viewed Virtual Earth map in the gallery.
Hydroseek	A search engine for finding scientific data on water quality and hydrology from approximately 1.9 million sites in the USA. Includes agencies such us US Geological Survey, EPA, Texas Commission of Water Quality, and more.
JiWire Hotspot Finder for Skype	Location Tools to find a hotspot anywhere in the world by chatting with the JiWire Hotspot Finder for Skype. Get the local weather and traffic reports, local search and get directions. Read local news, as well as local time and weather.
John L Scott Real Estate	Real estate searching with unique neighborhood wizard lets you draw the exact boundaries of your search. Hovering over the pushpins opens a window with property photo, price, and link to detailed information.
Keep Up With Jones	This Facebook app allows you to connect to Zillow from Facebook. View information about your house and see what your friends houses are worth.
Key Political Races Map	An MSNBC news site. Superimposes a VE map of the US and pushpin symbols that reveal key races during the 2006 election when the mouse is hovered over them.
KGI Wireless	KGI Wireless are using a combination of MSN Virtual Earth and MapPoint technology to map its wireless towers and associated profiles around the USA.
Learn the World	View the map and find information about countries, states, and cities with one mouse click.
Lebron's Bike-a-thon	Explore an interactive Virtual Earth map of the King for Kids Bike-a-thon with basketball star LeBron James. The marked areas on the map highlight exclusive video and pictures of the race event and the city of Akron.
Let's Meet	Chatting with other person in MSN Messenger it's great, but sometimes you want to meet him/her in reality. You need to find some place, which is suitable for both of you. This application will help you to find the ideal meeting place.
Livecontacts	Livecontacts friend finder application for connected Windows Mobile PDAs and Nokia Symbian smartphones. Know where your friends are and plot your position in Google Maps.
Locale Random Day Out	The random day out generator. Pick where and the types of things you like to do. Watch it build your itinerary for the day.
LocateA	Turns your Java-enabled mobile phone or your PDA mobile phone running Windows into a personal real-time tracking solution.
Lodging options in Buenos Aires	Map of hotels, apartments, hostels and spas in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with links to their websites.
LookLOCAL	LookLOCAL is a unique online mapping and local search service. View over 6,000 traffic cams, view travel related KML files and import your own, search or get directions, and compare Google Maps, Yahoo Local Maps, and Live Search Maps.
Map Channels Dual Maps	Dual maps let you display two maps side-by-side for a single location. Use the dual map to combine the features of Google Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth Maps within one embeddable control.
Map My Fitness	Site developed to share walking and running routes.
MapCruncher	Very interesting mashup technique from Microsoft Research, MSR. Shows how any type of map image data can be layered on top of a Virtual Earth map. This example with bike trail maps.
MapMate	MapMate is a new way to update your Facebook status. You can plot your current location and set your status anywhere using Virtual Earth.
Mappington	A social community for travelers. Create travel blogs, post your photos & videos, review destinations, befriend other travelers, share with your friends.
Maps by IDELIX	Google Maps, Yahoo Local Maps, and Windows Live Local all in one location. Search for businesses, get directions, explore and discover using patented lensing technology from IDELIX.
Maps of Australia	Collection of online maps using Google or Microsoft maps, street level to whole of the continent, including place name and address search, geocoding and link to map service.
MapSeeing.com	Visits famous places through Virtual Earth and Google Maps. See Related Flickr photos.
MapYourMP	Get to know any British Member of Parliament. Select by location, postcode or name. Traversing the UK map provides a constituency grid and instant feedback of its local MP. Extra information provides anecdotal quotes and wiki entries for the local area.
Messenger Pool	Play a game of pool inside MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger.
Mobile GMaps	Mobile GMaps is an application that displays Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, Windows Live Local and Ask.com Maps and satellite imagery on Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones, PDAs and other devices.
Mobile GPS Tracking	Windows Mobile and Microsoft Virtual Earth in real-time.
Monumental Adventure	Take a video tour around London and add your own content to this graphically rich travel video mashup.
Mr and Mrs Smith Routeplanner	Customize a UK road trip, choose stop off points along the way - restaurants, cafes, petrol stations, child friendly venues - and also has an avoid motorways function. The route can be emailed and printed.
My City Map	Local city guides for over 18,000 US cities.
My3DVistas	Shows off the new features of Virtual Earth 3D. Users search for, or load via GeoRSS, interesting views within Virtual Earth 3D and then share them out via E-mail links. The first live application using the VE 3D map control.
Mygeoland	Location search for Australia in Virtual Earth.
MyHome Australia	Slick custom interface on Virtual Earth map to search for real estate in Australia with user-defined property criteria and location.
NavDog Maps	Use NavDog.com for finding community events, fairs, carnivals, charity events, sales, promotions, open houses, road side markets and vendors.
Newsmap Virtual Earth	An International News Map built with the Microsoft Virtual Earth API. Click on any region on the map and national news for the country is loaded.
North Yorkshire Bike	Displays mountain biking routes in North Yorkshire. It displays both where each route is and the actual route. The site uses Ajax to get a list of points of interest and polylines.
Northern Colorado real estate site	Northern Colorado real estate site, where you can enter search criteria, such as the maximum price, and then see the search matches mapped.
ocarto a meta map mashup	Cool way to create and save your own hybrid maps using several mapping APIs. This mashup layers Google, Yahoo, MS Virtual Earth, and Terraserver maps into one interface - similar to the way Photoshop layers work.
Office Broker	This mashup combines office space search from OfficeBroker.com databases for the US, UK, and 50 other countries with Virtual Earth mapping. Locations of selected properties are shown on a map next to a list of available facilities and services.
ongmap	Mashup of Google Maps, Virtual Earth with many other APIs. Ext.js is used to make user interface intuitive. It lets you search for hotels, photos, restaurants, wifi spots, local news/blogs, events, weather, and many other spatial data.
Police Blotter	Extracts a daily spreadsheet generated by a cities police department into an interactive map and analysis system. This is the Nashville, TN version.
Rain City Guide	Allows users to search the greater Seattle area for real estate.
Read All About It	Amazon books combined with Windows Live Local. It allows users to find books on Amazon based upon geographical locations around the world.
Real Time Vehicle	This real-time vehicle tracker takes position reports sent a server and plots them as pushpins. The map refreshes at about the same interval as the position reports coming in. Right-click two pushpins and get some distance, speed, and time info.
Redfin	A nicely designed, comprehensive real estate mashup that incorporates Virtual Earth to find, sell, or buy properties.
Relight New York	Community action meets environment meets mash up. An environmental group started by a 16 year old allows kids in New York to form teams to adopt buildings and report on how many light bulbs they are able to convert.
RentRent.org	Rentrent.org offers a new search interface on top of craigslist listings. Filter by the number of bathrooms or other criteria you want.
Safarimappers	Maps most of the major National Parks, Game Reserves, Private reserves, and concession areas in Southern Africa and East Africa.
SakMap	SakMap is the Swiss army knife of Maps. It has a built in local services search with data available for each US city the ArcGIS geocoder identifies such as weather, photos, videos, imaging, news, wikipedia and more.
Sampa	A do-it-yourself website creation and hosting service designed to enable users to easily create sites using web services such as Blogger, Flickr, YouTube, Del.icio.us and BlueDot.
SAP Trade Zone Optimization	SAP application for Zone optimization using MapPoint 2006 and Virtual Earth 3D. This link goes to a Microsoft blog post with video showing more about the application.
Schmap Customizable Widgets	Customizable widgets that combine maps with photos and points of interest like restaurants, hotels, attractions, and shops for 200 destinations throughout the US, Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Seattle HyperMap	A mashup of Virtual Earth and the StrataVarious map and geotagged data system with clickable key and user-requested layered pop-ups. Find landmarks, hotels, colleges, theaters, restaurants, and more.
Seattle Movie Finder	An early use of the MSN Virtual Earth APIs to find movies by location in the Seattle area.
See Bournemouth	Explore Bournemouth UK on a Virtual Earth Map with birds eye views and panoramic photos.
ShareMyRoutes.com	Share your cycling, walking, hiking, and paddling routes with the world. See maps, photos, and stats about each route, or create your own.
Show Time Maps	Find movie times, compare them quickly between theaters, all on top of an interactive map-based interface. Purchase tickets at many of the theaters listed.
Sights and Sounds	Westin Hotel promotion using geotagged images and sounds featuring tourist spots in major US cities.
Silverlight Election App	U.S. Election 2008 application that blends Silverlight 1.0, AJAX, ASP.NET, and Virtual Earth. Provides biographies, images, links, and feeds for presidential candidates.
SnOasis UK	Overlays of development plans on aerial map images provide a before and after view of a proposed UK winter resort development. This mashup demonstrates how images can be overlaid onto high quality mapping and aerial imagery.
Speed Traps	Search for, pinpoint, and review speed traps located anywhere on the planet. The information shared by its members is placed into a database and can be viewed by anyone.
Spirit and Place Event Locator	Spirit And Place Event Locator. A mashup using Microsoft Virtual Earth and ASP.NET AJAX framework. This is based on some of the initial constructs by Jonathan Hawkins.
SportingSights	Satellite imagery of thousands of sports stadiums and venues from around the world. A community driven resource with stadium development news.
Spyk Property Search	A rich, dynamic mashup of Australian real estate websites onto the virtual earth map. Users can store favourites, and view full property details using lightboxes.
Start a Party	This mashup demonstrates how Windows Live Contacts allows sharing of Messenger or Hotmail contact information with third party applications. Send invitations to selected contacts to a get-together at a location selected on a Virtual Earth map.
stuFFLiX.com	Add map points to a variety of auction, business and venue-type categories. Points contain descriptions with YouTube videos.
Super Bowl 2006 Tour	Use this Windows Live Local map to tour the Detroit area near Ford Field. Use the arial 45-degree photos for close-ups.
SuperPages	Web-based version of the SuperPages. Uses Virtual Earth mapping technology to find businesses and services in your area. Driving directions, hours, and more are provided. Good wifi finder.
Tacky Christmas Lights	Locate the biggest Christmas light displays. Decorators register their display and we provide an interactive mapping experience with custom driving directions.
TrafficEye	Comprehensive mashup for real-time UK traffic information.
Trail Base	Plots trails for sports such as BMX, hiking, and horse riding and allows people to contribute and share their trails.
Trayle	Virtual Earth-enabled Trayle aims to collect travel blogs from travelers around the world. Users of the site can post blogs, or just see what other people had to say, while discovering a new spot.
TripHub	A collaborative way to plan, coordinate, and share gatherings that involve travel.
TruDat	Slick user interface allows you to sort through the data supplied by trulia.com to find the house you want. TruDat also incoporates a images from flickr.com.
Twitter Atlas	Most recently posted Twitters locations plotted on a map and updated automatically.
UFO Maps in Messenger	Keep up with and discuss with friends in Messenger the lastest UFO sightings with this combination of MSN Virtual Earth Maps and data from the National UFO Reporting Center.
UK Job Search	Job seekers can view jobs based on the usual criteria, such as salary, permanent or temp, location etc. and see the results by list or on a Virtual Earth map. Clicking on a location reveals the available jobs in that area.
UK Tesco Store Locator	Find Tesco store locations on a Virtual Earth map of the UK with an optional satellite image overlay. Hover the mouse over a location to get directions, or click on the name of the store to view its address, phone number and store hours.
UK Traffic Data	Mashup of UK traffic data using BBC and Windows Live Local. Toggle for showing Long-term Delays markers is nicely done so the initial map load is faster.
Ultima 7 Map	An explorable map of the Origin Systems, Inc. game Ultima 7, along with its add-ons and related game, Serpent Isle. I used Exult to extract the map, Virtual Earth to present it, and S3 to host the tiles.
UMapper	UMapper is a universal map authoring application that allows you to create interactive mapping mashups. Supports multiple map apis including Google Maps, VE, and OpenStreetMaps.
US Mineral Hypermaps	Demo of an atlas system for all-in-one-page access to large geographic data sets. Application plots various types of mines throughout the US, as well as agriculture and industrial areas.
Vakantieglobe.nl	Nice exploratory interface for finding holiday homes and tourist attractions across Europe.
VE Driving Directions Hack	Displays driving directions in Virtual Earth maps using data from the MapPoint Web Service. The ASP.NET page makes the calls to the MWS and returns XML which is in turn parsed by the JavaScript using XMLHttpRequest.
VE Map Digitizer Demo	This is a demo site for digitizing a location. Uses Virtual Earth, PHP and MySQL for locations.
Virtual Address Book	Virtual Address Book is a MSN Activity which allows you to share your favourite locations visually. Good drag and drop UI to show the person you are chatting with where anything is via a Virtual Earth map.
Virtual Carnival 2007	Dutch mashup that superimposes carnival parade routes on a Virtual Earth map.
Virtual Earth 3D Scenes	Virtual Earth 3D Scenes is a simple mashup that automatically cycles through a set of Virtual Earth 3D Scenes every minute. This mashup shows how to control the screen view of Virtual Earth 3D.
Virtual Earth 3D Scenes	Fly into a series of locations around the world. Cycles through scenes every 60 seconds. Requires IE plugin.
Virtual Earth Interactive	This mashup provides a new way of learning how to use Microsoft Virtual Earth map control APIs. Find the code you need by choosing the tasks you want to accomplish on your own page.
Virtual Earth Mac Widget	Mapping, search, and location functions in a handy OS X Tiger Dashboard widget.
Virtual India	Virtual India is a research project by Microsoft Research India, in collaboration with the Government of India Department of Science and Technology.
Weather Bonk	Rich mashup with live weather, forecasts, webcams, and more on a Google Map.
Weather Channel Interactive	View radar and cloud cover superimposed on an animated Virtual Earth map. Adjust the degree of transparency for the weather data to see more or less of the underlying map.
WeatherBug Maps	Get detailed weather information from hundreds of weather stations via this rich map interface built on the Weatherbug API, Microsoft Virtual Earth and Flash popups.
Welcome Wagon	This mashup lets you search for businesses by type or name within a user-specified radius from any location in the U.S. Results are shown as pushpins on a Virtual Earth map alongside a detailed contact list.
Wii Earth	Example application and source code showing how to use the Nintendo Wii to control 3D Virtual Earth maps. Take the Virtual Earth control out of the web browser, use it in a WinForms application, and control it with a Nintendo Wii Remote.
Windows Live Contacts Map	Maps the addresses of your Windows Live Contacts from Messenger, Mail, etc., using Virtual Earth
World Cup 2006 Map	Nice Virtual Earth mashup that shows the locations of the FIFA World Cup. Good hovers with details of stadiums and matches.
Yellow Pages	Search for and get maps and directions to businesses in your area.
Zillow.com	Sophisticated home valuation tools. 65 million listings. Extensive data on comprables, many search and sort options.
Zoomatron Nautical Maps	Very cool overlay of NOAA nautical charts on top of Virtual Earth maps engine. Charts can be made translucent.

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