Previously I wrote about creating a Silverlight control for Google Maps. Sadly Google wasn't up for supporting such a project, and still only allow you to access their map tiles through their API. Well, just shows that you get what you pay for :-) Looking around on the internet, I quickly found the DeepEarth projects on Codeplex.
The project rocks. It supports lots of different map providers: Virtual Earth, OpenStreetMaps, WMS maps, etc, with all the rich animation of Silverlight.
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