I went to a Virtual Earth developer day at TVP the other day and one of the big releases that they demonstrated is the new Virtual Earth Silverlight control
Currently in a Community Technology Preview status, the control builds on the fluidity of DeepZoom to provide mapping over a really slick looking canvas. Being that it's silverlight based, the canvas is really responsive compared to the AJAX implementation that is the current fashionable flavour
The controls can be downloaded from the Microsrof Connect website. This MSDN blog really isn't lying when it says you only need to type 2 lines of code to get a basic looking map out of it : http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2009/03/18/introducing-the-virtual-earth-silverlight-map-control.aspx
Just add the references and make a simple Map Tag and you're away. Making overlays is really simple and this guy has plotted the course and speec of the top 4 marathon runners in the New York Marathon, however i can only see 3 points : http://conceptdevelopment.net/Silverlight/VEMap01/default.html
He's actually plotted a few of the recent marathons in a few cities around the world. The map pans to follow the runners
I have a demo that i created to highlight how easy it is to implement. The app took around 10 minutes to create, including downloading the control from Microsoft Connect!! http://silverlight.creative-jar.com/maps/default.html
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