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Virtual Earth can now do 3-D maps and three cities are now available: San Francisco, Seattle, Boston and Atlanta.  Microsoft is also providing a Virtual Earh API to allow developers to manipulate Virtual Earth. 

Here the two lines required for "Hello World", Coding4Fun provides the entire snippet:

map = new VEMap('map');
map.LoadMap( new VELatLong(42.35822, -71.05309), 19, 'h', false,VEMapMode.Mode3D );

 

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  • Three cities are now available: San Francisco, Seattle, Boston and Atlanta

    by Horea Popa,

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    Which ones of those 4 ?
    San Francisco, Seattle, Boston and Atlanta
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