Mark Law - Virtual Earth Hacks

Posted: Sep 10, 2005 at 1:54 AM

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Are you a map hacker? Well, recently we invited some of the best map hackers onto campus to show us how it's done. Think you could do an even better hack? Then enter the Virtual Earth competition and you could win $1,000. Oh, and watch Chandu Thota's blog next week. He has some news about Virtual Earth coming (he works on the Virtual Earth team).

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dantheman82

Sep 10, 2005 at 9:56 AM

Very cool. The contest looks interesting.

Also, you can find some info about the polymap here:
http://poly9.viavirtualearth.com/Poly9/polyMap/polyMap.html

There are lots of neat add-ins/hacks to be found here:
http://viavirtualearth.com/vve/Gallery/Default.ashx

Definitely check out these groups more often. There's some great progress happening on this.
scobleizer I'm the video guy

Sep 10, 2005 at 10:23 AM

I'm here, just got into the Los Angeles Convention Center and the network is up. Awesome!
Robowho? Everything in this world is in jest

Sep 10, 2005 at 11:18 AM

Well, I'm here too , but could not sneak in to the Convention Center to use the network [C], so I am up a few blocks at the Starbucks .
Zeo Channel 9 :)

Sep 10, 2005 at 5:49 PM

I'm here too....Hmmm...Dinner anyone?

Cell: 617-669-5374
tweblog because I got stuff to say

Sep 10, 2005 at 6:42 PM

love the creative swiping acknowledgements and also looking forward to seeing how this continues to get easier for the average joe - not only for personal blogging, but also for business app's needs to get easier and have that great cost point (read: $zero)

it still looks like the stuff that I want to do takes a small team to get it done and a bit more than my skill set has (right now) - but the efforts to make it easier is awesome

keep up the good work!
Nata1 .Search - Google Appliance killer

Sep 11, 2005 at 5:45 PM

those guys are awesome! They pulled that off in a week, very impressive. Keep it up!
FreshLogicStudios

Jan 07, 2006 at 8:41 PM

We've created a redesign of the Virtual Earth site that we're calling "Atlas".

We think it's the cleanest, most drop-dead simple, web-based mapping and searching tool to date. For us it's a starting point where we'll begin adding mashups and have plans for several new features in the future.

Atlas is freely available at: http://atlas.freshlogicstudios.com/

Fresh Logic Studios
contact@freshlogicstudios.com
FreshLogicStudios

Jan 25, 2006 at 2:36 PM

We’ve added a couple of new features to our “Atlas” project. Sign up for a free account and you’ll be able to search for lowest gas prices and latest traffic conditions.

http://atlas.freshlogicstudios.com/