Newbie question

I am really new to Virtual Earth. I have used the control and have even partially implemented it on our corporate intranet. My question is, we have several locations throughout the United States and each location can be a certain type of location. Is there a way to populate pushpins based on locations in a dataset (or XML file) and then color those individiual pushpins based on the location's type. Further down the road, I would like to implement selection of two or more locations and showing the distance between them. I also would like to include a notepad with links to turn on and off location types.

What I need to know is if this is all possible using Virtual Earth?

Thanks.

[705 byte] By [guyinkalamazoo3] at [2007-12-27]