A Scalable Platform: From Portable Laptops to Rack-mounted Servers

The Virtual Earth Appliance

Microsoft’s Virtual Earth platform is an integrated set of powerful online mapping and search services that delivers imagery, 2D & 3D geospatial data, and analysis through a web browser.

These same browser-based capabilities are now available behind a customer’s firewall, on private or classified networks, and on portable platforms.

The Virtual Earth Appliance is designed to bring all of the rich data and functionality of the Virtual Earth internet service to the offline customer.

Custom data integration with the Appliance tracks with that of Virtual Earth on the internet. With the same API and tiling structure as Virtual Earth, customers can integrate their own data or take advantage of the capabilities of Microsoft’s network of partner companies. The Virtual Earth Appliance also makes possible additional custom capabilities, including the integration of custom content.