James Fee GIS Blog

I spent most of the afternoon talking with folks about web mapping systems and how to choose a direction to go. What is painfully obvious when you start laying out the different frameworks, APIs and servers is that there is just no clear answer as to what system to pick. When it comes [...]

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The Live Maps / Virtual Earth Blog points out that the MapDotNet Server 2007 is available for download.
The basic principal is very straight forward - server based GIS with access to enterprise data, dynamically rendered for use in Web applications. You have data in Oracle Spatial, PostGIS, or ESRI shape files that you want to [...]

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I was checking the weather tonight to see if there was going to be any rain tomorrow morning (it appears that will be the case) and saw that Weather.com dumped their proprietary mapping and is now using Virtual Earth.

I had seen some Virtual Earth maps on Weather.com, but this is the first time I’ve seen [...]

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Interesting, the MapPoint.WorldRoutable data source allows you to create routes that span multiple countries and even continents. On top of that, the API supports 13 languages for driving instructions on these routes. The MSDN Library has more on this MapPoint Web Service so if you do live somewhere other than the United States, [...]

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I was catching up on my RSS feeds and I caught a link to this book in my .NET Technorati page. The book seems to cover MapPoint 2004, MapPoint Web Service, MapPoint Location Server and MSN Virtual Earth (aka Live Local). I wish I saw this book before today as I’ve pretty much [...]

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