On Sept 26th the Virtual Earth Platform Team Blog made an exciting announcement that I only discovered today, the release of Microsoft Virtual Earth Web Service SDK 1.0.
This new SOAP-based Virtual Earth Web Services provides access to the Virtual Earth platform with a completely developer-defined user interface! The platform supports:
- Mobile-optimized static map images
- Direct map tile access
- One-box search
- Reverse geocoding
- Routing
This is very exciting as it truly enables developers to create custom solutions on top of our powerful mapping service. I look forward on blogging on any uses of this API as it becomes better known within the community.
To learn more visit these links:
Also be sure to check out the root Virtual Earth Development Center for a complete list of all available ways to interact with Virtual Earth.