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    December 12

    New Virtual Earth release launches

    Although its a minor point release, this build of Virtual Earth packs a few great new features. I mentioned a couple days ago that the Birds Eye navigation control was being replaced soon, and today marks the day. Makes me want to sing the witch is dead song from Wizard of Oz. No more thumbnail grid - You can now navigate in Birds Eye using the new inset map similar to Streets and Trips. You can also drag to the end of a birds eye scene and VE will try to bring in the next scene based on where you are dragging. Go ahead and try it out by clicking the image below.

    My favorite set of features in this release is around drawing and measuring stuff. Ever wonder exactly how far it was from Point A to Point B? or how far the route you jog each morning is? VE's drawing tools now report distance as you draw in a convenient tooltip. When you are done drawing, the distance appears on the scratchpad with the corresponding entry. Its a great way to catalog runs or bike rides and a simple way to just measure an ad hoc route or distance. And when you share those collections of trails with others, the distance is displayed in the Collection viewer. Here is a Collection I just started of bike rides in my neighborhood. To compliment this, we've added a bunch of new drawing features and drawing enhancements. for instance, you can now right click on an end node of a path to continue drawing where you left off in a previous visit. Much more on the drawing features later, I'm heading out to diner at what I hope is a great new restaurant in my hood.

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    I like the changes made for viewing the Pictometry imagery (a.k.a. Birds Eye view).  Being able to pan from image to image is a big plus over the old thumbnail navigation.  

    The new overview map is quite nice as well, though pretty standard for internet mapping services.  I love the extend graphic for viewing Pictometry imagery.  Very helpful when viewing the imagery at the small scale setting (zoomed out); however, either the overview map needs to zoom in when zooming in on the imagery or the extent graphic needs to become smaller so the extent graphic accurately represents the extent of what is visible on the screen.

    Calculating distance based on a user defined graphic line is childs play, but nice to see.  What would really be nice would be if the drawing of the graphic line would snap and/or trace street data.  This would help produce more accurate distances when trying to measure curvy streets.  Right now the tool is only effective for straigh features (like gridded streets).  

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