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1. Biggest Loser Ranch In Malibu Creek State Park ΓÇô 2008 Season | Virtual Bird’s Eye
2. Indianapolis Motor Speedway Virtual Seating Map Using MapCruncher and Virtual Earth | Virtual Bird’s Eye
3. Big Brother 10 House Aerial and BirdΓÇÖs Eye View | Virtual Bird’s Eye
4. New York Yankees – Yankee Stadium Aerial View | Virtual Bird’s Eye
5. Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Plane Graveyard Aerial and BirdΓÇÖs Eye View | Virtual Bird’s Eye

FYI – Once posting resumes, this post will go away…

As you can see from the image in the post, we have a 4 GB Microsoft Zune to give away and a couple of T-shirts.

WeΓÇÖre still looking for more prizes before the contest gets started, so if you would like to donate a prize to the contest please use the contact form.

Thanks,

The Virtual BirdΓÇÖs Eye Team

If you are following us and saying “I hate football”, then don’t worry, we’ll still put up some other locations along the way to keep you interested.

If you are a College Football fan, keep us in mind and give us a follow, maybe submit a link or two to your favorite team site!!┬á Make sure and add a link to our site from yours for all the College Football Stadium aerial and bird’s eye views!

Get ready, it all starts tomorrow!!

Why are we doing this?

• This will better server you, the reader, with a larger map so everyone can see more of each location
• Our own page that can be used and modified as we wish – The plugin we were using on the site for maps was great, but when the functionality was hindered with the site upgrade, we decided to move to something different, away from a Wordpress plugin.┬á This will benefit us now and in the future with upgrades to the site and Virtual Earth upgrades

What does this mean?

• Full Screen Virtual Earth Map views great for higher resolution screens!
• Button to submit your own links for us to post!! (With a link to your site as a Thanks!)

What’s next?

• Look for a contest in the near future using the new map page!!┬á Prizes will be on par with a small site, so don’t get tooo excited… ┬á Oh – and if there is anybody that wants to donate a prize, just Contact Us here at the site.

We’re sure the new page will be much better for everyone!!

UPDATE – Going to be a few more days – sorry for the delay.┬á I’ll post again when it’s ready for all to see.

As always, if there are any interesting places or sites you would like us to post, send them in – we’ll link to your site as a thanks too!!

VBE

UPDATE - If you want to see the stadiums – Follow This Link to get the list

Any suggestions are also welcome!  Thanks again for all the support on our young site, we look forward to bringing you more locations for a long time to come!

Thanks,

The Virtual Bird’s Eye Team

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For all the Microsoft Virtual Earth users:

FriendFeed Room for Virtual Earth

If you are a GIS user check this one out!!

FriendFeed Room for GIS

For the Google users out there – I have some Google names out there – Since I am mostly a VE users on this blog, not sure what I am going to end up doing with these (pass off Admin at some point I hope) – but for now, they are going at the following locations:

Google Earth

Google Maps

Google Sky

Enjoy!!

The ‘theme’ we are running right now is on Theme Parks – if you can’t get to one this summer, why not at least look at them

Soon we’ll move on to another topic – and there are always the irregular ones thrown in there too.┬á Make sure and suggest anything you would like to cover on the Send A Link page.

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The Sub Report - surprisingly the most traffic on this site has come from a few posts put up about submarines…┬á who would have thought that would happen…

Chris Pendleton – Virtual Earth Tech Evangelist – was next on the list when he put up a post about our Masters 3D Tour that was put together.

navigovat.cz – Although I have NO idea what was said about us or our site, navigovat is ranking number 3…

on10.net - Sarah put up a link to our site and it’s appreciated!!!

liveSide.net was also kind enough to promote us as well with a write up

I also noticed today that bevcoverate.atspace.com has a link to us in his ‘links’ section

BIG Thanks to everyone!  Of course we hope for more in the future, but I am appreciative of what we already have!

If I missed you please let me know…┬á I don’t want to leave anybody out.

Head over to Chris Pendleton’s blog to find out the full details on this update.

Let us know if you find anything interesting in the new photos – we’ll share it with everyone!

We have a few more fun ones and some more planes in flight that we have found – but we need another focus for the next week or so – Give us a suggestion!

Link to Live Maps

Make sure and check out the more official post on Texas Motor Speedway.

Click the image below for a quick drive around Texas Motor Speedway like the big boys!!

EDIT – seems to work in FireFox,but not IE 7. I am looking into it…

EDIT (going to bed) – This is what I am working on (see image below) will get on it in the AM – I have made some mods to this theme, and the server so that might be causing some of the errors. I have another WP install on another domain to test with. I’ll keep this updated – It’s cool in FireFox though (but missing some buttons)

Edit Again – Looks like Twitter Tools Plugin was breaking map toolbar images in FireFox – but they are working now without the plugin… Good to know! As a side note – It’s not working on this site in IE though… But it is working on the old site (link if you want to see) so maybe something specific to this site… Still trying It doesn’t work in IE7 or IE6…

More Edits!! – It’s still breaking something over there too in IE6 at least – check out the sidebar – it’s almost like the map is trying to extend out too far…

WOW – Data from dev.virtualearth never stops transferring….

So it looks like the bounds aren’t getting set now… when I zoom all the way out, it finishes downloading. I assume that it’s trying to download every tile at all layers. That’s not good. I wonder why it’s doing that.

Link to Live Maps