Driving Directions Using Virtual Earth

By James Fee | Published: October 19, 2005

Link – Driving Directions using Virtual Earth

I just saw this very cool Virtual Earth application appear in my PubSub Virtual Earth feed. According to the programmers blog:

This demo demonstrates how to leverage the MapPoint Web Service (MWS) in order to do driving directions using the current version of VE. The upcoming version of VE will have driving directions built in but meanwhile you can use this application to get routes using the current version

Pretty cool way to fix a problem with Virtual Earth using another Microsoft product. He uses an asp.NET page talks to the MWS that returns XML that is then parsed by the JavaScript using XMLHttpRequest. That my friends is classic AJAX. It works pretty well and beyond the GUI problems that I think Virtual Earth has, this is a cool mashup.

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3 Comments

  1. Roger Williams
    Posted October 30, 2006 at 1:39 am | Permalink

    Man, This is Great!! I like it when I can actually view the surrounding area and buildings along with the building I’m looking for. It helps me to better find the businesses that I will be working at. Thanks for the help and the Fun!!!!!

    Roger Williams, RWDist@msn.com

    Computer Consulting

  2. David
    Posted September 11, 2007 at 12:47 pm | Permalink

    Driving directions to nowhere, You have the right to choose where to go….

    http://www.txtapic.com/roadsign

    This is the road to no where?

  3. Mapquest Advocate
    Posted December 29, 2007 at 9:47 pm | Permalink

    Other mapping services are still alive and, frankly, doing better than VE. Very few (if any) out of people I know go to Microsoft for driving directions. Google, MapQuest, Yahoo, or I think even Rand McNally get more traffic…

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