Some time ago, I wrote an asset management system in VB.NET, using Virtual Earth with a MapCruncher Mashup of my company's multi-floor floor plan. I use this for my helpdesk work. When someone calls in, I can pull up a map of that computer's exact location. However, it's becoming more difficult to maintain with the many updates to the VE API as well as mapcruncher. However, the speed is more of an issue. I have so much data in this system, and the fact that it has to fetch the VE data from the Web, it is so slow.
I put the data in the system by visually locating a PC in the general location on the map. I click the Map to pull the Lat and Long of that location; which I then store in a SQL server. So when I search for a pc name, it locates a Pushpin in the general location. Not using GPS, just relative locations.
Is anyone aware of an offline tool that I would get the same benefit as VE. Also, I'm using webforms, but am forced to insert a web page into the form to to the VE API. I'd like something that would work directly with a webform. Will MapPoint take care of my needs.
Here's a screenshot of what I'm currently doing:
http://www.jegreer.com/tam.jpg
Josh Greer

VE Winforms Asset Management System
stallion_alpa
Looks pretty cool... well, I was browsing a few minutes ago some articles about VE and maybe this helps for speeding up the load times:
http://viavirtualearth.com/vve/Articles/LocalTileCachePhp.ashx
You could rewrite that little tile cache as an ASP/ASPX page and cache some data to reduce the loading speed (if that still works like this in the newest version of VE)...