Deep Earth project grows, something cool to share.

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The DeepEarth codeplex project continues to grow with more developers, discussions, work items and source code. Huge thanks goes to Shaun who has be building out a concept for the architecture of the control and Jonas who made a cool dashboard control.

I thought I would share a rather cool example of what you can do, a pin on the map that when you click animates to show a deep zoom panorama:

DEPinDZ

http://deepzoom.soulclients.com/veEmbeddedDZ/

I think the ability to have something quite advanced such as this as a marker on the map is one very interesting and powerful feature of a Silverlight Map control. Having deep zoom on top of deep zoom does cause some issues, for example I had to disable the mouse scroll wheel on the marker as by default it activated both controls.

What do you think of having much more interactive elements as markers?