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Loopt co-founder Sam Altman was onstage yesterday at Apple’s DevCon to launch the Loopt client app for iPhone. You can see it in action in this 2 minute video from ZDNet:

Loopt helps you keep tabs on your friends whereabouts from your mobile. One big difference between Loopt and most similar apps is that you don’t need to continuously update your location manually; on location aware devices this is automated eliminating the ’stale location’ problem many other apps suffered from. Loopt currently works on about 65 handsets with more on the way.

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A couple of weeks ago I was commenting to our imagery team that the area around Mt Rushmore would be a great addition to our Birds Eye library; its one of the most recognizable landmarks in the US, but because of its remote location i guessed that only a small percent of folks had visited in person to see it and explore the area. now just a couple of weeks later I see it pop up in Birds Eye. I didn’t realize i had that kind of influence with the imagery team

The West view is pretty amazing. South is OK too, for seeing some of the behind the scenes goop on the mountain.

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For a recent project I was working on, I needed to overlay lines of latitude and longitude on the map. I had a hard time finding some so I created 10 degree and 30 degree grids. Below you can view each of them as a Collection which you can export to KML, GeoRSS or GPX and you can also grab the exported KML for each. I figured someone else must have use for this as well. If you grab the KML files you can easily edit the styles (1 for latitude, 1 for longitude) or make whatever tweaks you need.

10 Degree Lines: Collection or KML

30 Degree Lines: Collection or KML

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Beautiful view of Notre Dame de Reims which was highlighted at Virtual Globetrotting the other day. After rotating around and exploring the building visually I was curious to find out more about it. Whenever you are looking at something in Live Maps the easiest way to learn more about it is to turn [...]

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I suppose a web-based standalone version of Google Sky was inevitable, once the Google Maps API supported it, and now it’s here. Highlights include infrared, microwave and historical-map layers with opacity controls and a series of image collections from space telescopes linked from the bottom. (I should note, as I often do, that [...]

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I was just sent this beautiful view of Notre Dame de Reims which was highlighted at Virtual Globetrotting the other day. After rotating around and exploring the building visually I was curious to find out more about it. Whenever you are looking at something in Live Maps the easiest way to learn more [...]

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The latest monthly update of maps is complete. Highlights include all maps for North America republished with the latest NavteQ street data, new JD Barnes aerial imagery in Canada, and lots of new aerial imagery in India and China. Below is a list of new and expanded Birds Eye and 3D cities as [...]

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Here’s a nice gift for coders from developer evangelist Marc Schweigert - Intellisense for the Virtual Earth Map Control! If you aren’t familiar with Intellisense, its like having autocompletion while coding. for instance, if you begin to instantiate an object you are presented with an interactive list of all of the parameters the [...]

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Here’s a Press release from New York City Transit about their new online trip planner that i came across via SlashGeo. If you’re in NYC you can use the app at http://tripplanner.mta.info/ The VE Gov blog has lots of detail on the application along with some nice screenshots. The 3D visualization features are [...]

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The President of ESRI and Microsoft’s VP of Storage Systems talk about one of the longest running Microsoft Partnerships in this video. Much more on the partnership, GIS, and what ESRI is up to here. The Microsoft ISV (Indy Software Vendors) web has received a big makeover recently making it easy to find [...]

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Last year Microsoft and InfoNow announced a partnership where InfoNow would begin using the Virtual Earth platform to supply mapping and other location services to their customers. InfoNow provides Channel Management solutions to some of the worlds top brands like Maytag, American Express, and HP. You can learn more about InfoNow’s products in [...]

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We picked this up via the James Fee GIS Blog, the Wii Remote has become a jack of all trades recently acting as a VR Headset Sensor, Whiteboard Input Device and now to control Microsoft’s Virtual Earth.
The movie below is well worth a look:

Video: Wiimote Interface for Virtual EarthOne of the leading developers [...]

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David Barkol shows you how to reference the Virtual Earth v6 Map Control via HTTPS for authenticated/encrypted communication. For many of you this new feature in VE v6 isn’t needed and carries a few milliseconds of latency, but if you’re building enterprise applications that require secure communications there hasn’t been an easy way [...]

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The Google Earth blog posted a nice video of the new textured cityscape of Raleigh, NC featuring the Birds Eye overlay. The video looks good, but its so tiny that its difficult to make out the details. You can tell that Frank Taylor, the video’s creator, has logged a lot of hours with [...]

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Marc DiGregorio from 3DVIA created some great sample house models using Virtual Earth – 3DVIA (Beta)! You can copy the models into your own Collections and even make further modifications on your own.
Here’s a short video of the house collection in Virtual Earth 3D.
And here’s the collection. You can copy these models to [...]

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