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Change to the Bing Maps for Government Blogging

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
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Those of you who read the Bing Maps for Government Blog have likely noticed that, for some time now, my blogging activity has slowed. I have, for several years, straddled two businesses in Microsoft: Bing Maps and our UltraCam digital aerial camera business...
Bing Maps For Government

Microsoft & IDV Solutions Buisiness Intelligence Event: April 31, 2010

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
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Hey Public and Private Sector organizations ... don't miss this opportunity to catch a presentation from Microsoft and partner, IDV Solutions , that will demonstrate how to leverage Microsoft Bing Maps and Sharepoint , along with IDV's Visual Fusion ...
Bing Maps For Government

Bing Maps Roadshow--Next Stop: New York!

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
Don’t miss your opportunity to hear from the Bing Maps Platform team about the latest innovations including Streetside and the Silverlight Control. Whether you are building on an existing application or creating a completely new Web mapping solution...
Bing Maps For Government

Ontario Selects Bing Maps for Economic Development Site

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
Bing Maps has been steadily gaining ground with economic development agencies looking to add visualization of GIS data to web sites aimed to spur regional growth and investment. The latest adoption of Bing Maps for this type of application is up north...
Bing Maps For Government

Bing Maps at Microsoft CIO Summit - ISC Wins Azure Contest

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
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Had the pleasure of attending the Microsoft hosted CIO Summit at the Microsoft conference center in Redmond, WA last week. The annual summit hosts 400+ government and education leaders from across the country who come together to learn from Microsoft...
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Bing Maps Server Webcast

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
Many Government customers are looking for the kind of powerful mapping features and functionality found with Bing Maps but have a classified network and need a premise-based server solution disconnected from the Internet. No problem. Microsoft's geospatial...
Bing Maps For Government

Follow-up to Bing Maps at TED Conference: Video of Presentation

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
As follow-up to my last post about the Bing Maps tech preview at the TED conference, I have a link to a video of the actual presentation given by Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Bing Maps architect. A really cool moment in the video is when Blaise shows a real...
Bing Maps For Government

Bing Maps Tech Preview at TED Conference

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Microsoft Bing Maps architect, presented today at the TED conference in Palm Springs, California, wowing the audience with a tech preview of some new direction for Bing Maps. If you are not familiar with TED, it is a small nonprofit...
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Bing Maps Mapping Economic Development in Arlington, VA

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
Arlington Economic Development (AED) is the department of Arlington County Government dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of an economically vital, competitive, and sustainable community. It provides leadership and services to the commercial...
Bing Maps For Government

Bing Maps provides new imagery of Haiti

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
The Microsoft Bing team has responded to this week’s catastrophic event in Haiti by working with satellite imagery provider, DigitalGlobe , to rapidly publish current imagery of Haiti captured by the company’s Quickbird and WordView II satellite...
Bing Maps For Government

Bing Maps Demo: A Single View of Collision Data from Microsoft & IDV Solutions

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
Microsoft partner, IDV Solutions , recently released a new interactive application demo that visualizes vehicle collision data. The demo is built using their data visualization product-- Visual Fusion --and integrates Microsoft Silverlight and a stack...
Bing Maps For Government

See How to Add Latest Bing Maps Features to Web Mapping Applications

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
The new imagery features that the community has been buzzing about on the new Bing Maps beta site are also available for developers on the Bing Maps Platform ! Chris Pendleton shares how to download the necessary DLLs on his blog today. Be sure to take...
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REMINDER: Bing Maps Roadshow - Reston Stop

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
Yesterday I reported on some fantastic new updates to the Bing Maps platform and advised you of an upcoming webcast that will focus on the new features and functionality. But those of you in the Reston, VA area can get a front row seat: as a reminder...
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Bing Maps Gets Major Overhaul ... Check Out in Upcoming Webcast

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
What a HUGE day for Microsoft Bing Maps! Not only did the Development team release 46.7 TB of new imagery but they also released a beta Silverlight version of Bing Maps with some pretty cool new features including a new Streetside mode that allows...
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Bing Maps Assisting Northwest Florida Rural Area of Critical Economic Concern (NW RACEC)

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
It would seem that Microsoft partner, ISC , is carving out quite a niche for themselves supporting agency economic development efforts through mapping applications that integrate the Microsoft Bing Maps platform and their MapDotNet UX platform. ISC...
Bing Maps For Government

Tracking Piracy in Bing Maps using Visual Fusion 4.5

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
Bing Maps can be used to track everything from assets to fleets to family members to the Abominable Snowman (as Virtual Earth) and maritime crime. Piracy Watch is a demonstration application built on Visual Fusion 4.5, the latest release from Microsoft...
Bing Maps For Government

Bing Maps Roadshow Coming to Reston, Virgina

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
The Bing Maps Platform is all about the power of location—from enhancing existing applications with maps and address validation, to creating completely new Web mapping solutions. With features such as locators, fleet/asset tracking, data visualization...
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New Bing Maps Release Includes FREE Licensing for Government and Education!

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
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Bing Maps got a new look and today as well as peformance enhancements and new features that include a new Silverlight Control, Draggable Routes, a new Zoom bar and other new navigation buttons, Command Parsing, Word Wrapping, and the ability to embed...
Bing Maps For Government

Webcast: Microsoft and IDV's Powerful Offline Solutions for Intel, Defense, Public Safety, and Large Enterprise

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
I am at the GEOINT 2009 conference in San Antonio, Texas, extolling the virtues of Bing Maps and the Virtual Earth Server to the geospatial intelligence crowd. "The Virtual Earth WHAT?" you may ask. Microsoft's geospatial subsidiary, Vexcel Corporation...
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Bing Maps at the International Economic Development Conference

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
I had the pleasure of attending the International Economic Development Conference held last week in Reno, Nevada. The conference brought together roughly 1200 economic development professionals, all looking to better understand how to help local businesses...
Bing Maps For Government

Texas Dept of Transportation Exands Use of Bing Maps

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
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Since writing my last blog entry about the Illinois Dept of Transporation using Bing Maps for reporting ARRA funded projects, it has come to my attention that the Texas DoT has exapnded their use of Bing Maps to also provide tracking of projects planned...
Bing Maps For Government

Illinois Dept of Transportation Visualizing ARRA Funded Projects on Bing Maps

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
Readers of this blog, since the time it was named VIrtual Earth for Government, know that Bing Maps (formerly Virtual Earth) has been adopted by a number of Department of Transporation agencies that have recognized it as a great platform for building...
Bing Maps For Government

ESRI's MapIt: Why You Should Care

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
If you have been reading this blog for some time now, you are probably familiar, to some degree, with the MapIt product offered by Microsoft partner, ESRI. If not, here is a quick run down: MapIt combines software with services to enable businesses...
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Upcoming Bing Maps Webcast: Bing Maps with Sharepoint

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
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When is Bing Maps more than an awesome platform for building data visualization applications? When it is combined with Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server. When this happens, your mapping applications become collaborative tools that allow information to...
Bing Maps For Government

Bing Maps from Microsoft: Public Sector Maps the Easy Way

Posted over 3 years ago

by jerryskaw
Have spent this past two weeks attending conferences, first the Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington D.C., and then this week GIS in the Rockies in Loveland, Colorado. I made a couple of interesting observations from these shows. First, there are still public...

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