Project DescriptionDeepEarth is a community project focused on creating a rich interactive mapping control using Silverlight2 Deep Zoom. Concentrating on Microsoft Virtual Earth imagery and data the project offers team members the opportunity to learn and share while creating something cool and useful.
The project will explore using the MultiScaleImage control (Deep Zoom) for tile layers and user content, User Experience around mapping with Silverlight and the performance benefits and coding practises of native .net code.
Expect some cool functionality from this amazing technology.
Live example of the control can be found here:
http://deepzoom.soulclients.com/VE/ See the control in action on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj-qYh03P00
There are no releases yet as we are in the
prototype stage, feel free to download the latest code from the Source Code tab. Currently the main project is just for the dev team to play with ideas and see what is possible, the API folder gives a glimpse into some of the final architecture.
Join in on the Discussions tab to provide ideas, feedback and your thoughts.
Suggestions? Comments? Ideas? How to setup the solutionUseful Resources “The Use of this product does not include license to the Microsoft® Virtual Earth™ Platform. If your application does not comply with the Microsoft® Virtual Earth™ Terms of Use you may contact a Microsoft licensing specialist to acquire rights to use the platform outside the documented terms of use.”
