The Virtual Earth Interactive SDK and Windows Live Search

I’m pretty impressed with Microsoft’s efforts on Virtual Earth.

The Interactive SDK makes it easy to generate code snippets. What about the data? It turns out a handy trick is to use Windows Live Search. You can create what they term “a collection.” (How Borg like!) Here’s mine. From there they allow you to export the data in different types of ways. Then you can plug that information into your VE instance.

So, in non-geek terms, this means you can easily use Windows Live Search to generate a list of places to label. Kind of neat! I think Microsoft got it right on this one.