There is currently no api method for turning a Virtual Earth Collection from maps.live.com into a GeoRss file. However there is a workaround that you can use as follows: Open your collection on maps.live.com Click the Share button and select either "Send in e-mail" or "Copy to clipboard" - what you want is the URL for the collection Visit the URL in the clipboard or the e-mail - it will be something like: http://maps.live.com/?v=2&cid=FB8B852EF1AB0B35!519&encType=1  When the collection is displayed you will see a Subscribe link at...

Virtual Earth has a great api, better than Google Maps IMHO, but JavaScript is PITA if you have no editor support.  VS2008 has brought Intellisense to many JavaScript scenarios, but not to VE development - up until now that is. A Code Plex project (that I had the pleasure to be involved in, though in a tiny tiny way, because the project was completed so quickly! - I expect to be more involved in future iterations) has made it easy to have JavaScript Intellisense for VE in Visual Studio. The Virtual Earth: An Evangelist's Blog has a good...

Technorati Tags: windows Mobile,mapping TomTom may have had a leading position for sat nav and mapping on mobile devices but I predict things are going to change.  Why?  Google and Microsoft. First the Microsoft Windows Mobile Team (well Jason Fuller to be exact) keep updating the really nice version of Virtual Earth Mobile - http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/09/15/757207.aspx  - this does sat images, draggable maps, traffic, gps integration, driving directions and more.  Just a shame they haven't offered more support for this and made it an official release.  It also a little unstable. Now Google have released Google Maps for...