What is DeepEarth?

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Virker ikke i Chrome, og fejler fælt i IE6 ...
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Doesn't work in Chrome and fails badly in IE6 ...
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DeepEarth is a mapping control powered by the combination of Microsoft’s Silverlight 2.0 platform and the DeepZoom (MuliScaleImage) control. At its core, it builds on these innovative technologies to provide an architecture for bringing together layers for services, data providers, and your own custom mapping elements together into an impressive user experience. Also featured are in depth examples of how you can leverage Virtual Earth Web Services to take advantage of advanced GIS service functionality. This is what you need to get an interactive, native Silverlight 2.0, map into your application today.

DeepEarth Version 1.0 represents a stable mapping platform ready for your project. It was conceived in a series of blog posts that through the collaborative efforts of readers exposed the then undocumented feature of Silverlight 2 to configure a custom tilesource to the MultiScaleImage (DeepZoom) control. In June 2008 DeepEarth was born on CodePlex under the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) to extend what was simply just an awesome image viewer into a full blown mapping control. Half a dozen developers from different sides of the globe now contribute to the project. We openly communicate our ideas and comments in the Discussions tab (feel free to join in) creating and assigning tasks, bugs and features in the Issue Tracker .

Feel free to browse the demos, and if you are feeling more adventurous, download the release and take a test drive. 

Version 1.0 concentrated on a solid, stable, base platform for us (and you) to build upon. It provides imagery as tile layers, a robust Virtual Earth implementation supporting the official token based tile access and web services. Other features include:

• Fully implemented map control with property and event model
• Fully templated set of map navigation controls
• Layers for inclusion of Points, LineStrings and Polygons (OGS)
• Conversion library for geography to screen coordinate systems.
• Geocoding (find an address)
• Reverse Geocoding (getting an address from a point on the map)
• Routing (Directions)
• Marque zoom selection (default Ctrl-click and drag or from menu toggle)
• Map rotation

DeepEarth supports the Virtual Earth Web Service (VEWS) for tile layers, geocoding (finding an address), reverse geocoding (getting an address from a point on the map) and routing. We also support a pattern to implement your own providers including samples for OpenStreetMap, OpenAerialMap, and more. For access to the Virtual Earth Tile System see DeepEarth Version 1.0 Release Notes . [...]

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Read more: http://www.codeplex.com/deepearth

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