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Maps Blog — Feb 2010

  • Feb
    04
    20 10

    Vancouver Applications Feature Bing Maps

    All eyes will be watching Vancouver in the next couple weeks since the 2010 Winter Olympics roll into town. For those of you who won’t just be watching, but instead living the Olympics the Microsoft Canada Development Centre published a contest challenging developers to create interesting applications featuring the Bing Maps Platform and below are the resulting, quite helpful visitor applications. The Apps were developed by Developers at the Microsoft Canada Development Centre (MCDC) in Richmond, Vancouver. They are developing these apps in their ‘spare time’ as an initiative to get them more engaged with the local developer community. These apps will be ‘launched’ in early Feb and targeted at citizens and visitors during the Olympics. The apps utilize open data from the City of Vancouver ( http://data.vancouver.ca ) and platformed using the MS Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI) and Windows Azure – making them true cloud computing apps. All source code will be placed in Codeplex for shared use after the contest has finished. MapWay (Xinyang Qiu)- a way to find City of Vancouver facilities and Olympic events. Free Finders (Avi Brenner... Read More All eyes will be watching Vancouver in the next couple weeks since the 2010 Winter Olympics roll into town. For those of you who won’t just be watching, but instead living the Olympics the Microsoft Canada Development Centre published a contest challenging developers to create interesting applications featuring the Bing Maps Platform and below are the resulting, quite helpful visitor applications. The Apps were developed by Developers at the Microsoft Canada Development Centre (MCDC) in Richmond, Vancouver. They are developing these apps in their ‘spare time’ as an initiative... Read More
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  • Feb
    01
    20 10

    Bing Maps Imagery Release, January 2010...

    As I mentioned in my previous content update blog post, Bing Maps Imagery Release, January 2010 (Part 1), the amount of data being released into Bing Maps for January was so large that we have to break it into two releases to publish it. So, with that, I give you the second half totally 446,000+ square kilometers of new ortho imagery: Brisbane (Australia) Brisbane International Airport Area (Australia) Gold Coast (Australia) Murarrie-Raby Bay (Australia) Auckland (New Zealand) United Kingdom (21,000+ sq km) Santa Barbara, CA (USA) Crested Butte, CO (USA) Copper Mountain, CO (USA) Erie, PA (USA) Pittsburgh, PA (USA) Additional areas of interest around the world including Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, South Africa, Swaziland, Morocco, Namibia, Botswana, Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Russia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Latvia, Turkey and Romania. Check the Bing Maps World Tour for full details of the release. This, plus Part 1 of the January 2010 release equates to over 1 million sq. km. of new imagery just for this month. Holy smokes! CP – Follow me on Twitter @ ChrisPendleton Read More As I mentioned in my previous content update blog post, Bing Maps Imagery Release, January 2010 (Part 1), the amount of data being released into Bing Maps for January was so large that we have to break it into two releases to publish it. So, with that, I give you the second half totally 446,000+ square kilometers of new ortho imagery: Brisbane (Australia) Brisbane International Airport Area (Australia) Gold Coast (Australia) Murarrie-Raby Bay (Australia) Auckland (New Zealand) United Kingdom (21,000+ sq km) Santa Barbara, CA (USA) Crested Butte, CO (USA) Copper... Read More
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