{"id":1161,"date":"2009-01-16T14:17:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T13:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1161-web-app-with-silverlight-and-virtual-earth.html"},"modified":"2009-01-16T14:17:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T13:17:49","slug":"web-app-with-silverlight-and-virtual-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1161-web-app-with-silverlight-and-virtual-earth.html","title":{"rendered":"Web app with Silverlight and Virtual Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing on mapping applications right now and came across this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portmetrovancouver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">impressive example<\/a> from Port Metro Vancouver. It uses Microsoft\u2019s Silverlight and Virtual Earth. The bit you want is the interactive map on the home page. Wait for it to load, then click the uncaptioned button (to the right of Webcams Wall) for full screen mode, and try some of the menu options.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/images\/ve_vancouver.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is more about the app in this <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualearth4gov.spaces.live.com\/blog\/cns!369B39F890CE30C1!3121.entry\" target=\"_blank\">blog entry<\/a> on the Virtual Earth for Public Sector blog.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:7df2e178-306b-4b2e-9636-f0e710bf75a2\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/mapping\" rel=\"tag\">mapping<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/virtual+earth\" rel=\"tag\">virtual earth<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/silverlight\" rel=\"tag\">silverlight<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing on mapping applications right now and came across this impressive example from Port Metro Vancouver. It uses Microsoft\u2019s Silverlight and Virtual Earth. The bit you want is the interactive map on the home page. Wait for it to load, then click the uncaptioned button (to the right of Webcams Wall) for full screen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1161-web-app-with-silverlight-and-virtual-earth.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Web app with Silverlight and Virtual Earth<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,55,77,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-microsoft","category-silverlight","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}