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, this event has something for you. Ø On the Road with Bing Maps: Learn Exciting New Ways to Bring Location-Based Data to Life Join Bing Maps experts, as they provide an overview of how the Bing Maps Platform can be a powerful visualization tool for geographic and location–based information. Learn solution implementation and best practices -- and leave with the tools and resources to tap the power of location using Bing Maps. Date...
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. With the launch of its SelectOntario web site , Ontario is now the first province in Canada to implement a state-of-the-art geographic information system (GIS) tool for the purposes of investment attraction, and they are using my favorite mapping platform (is there another?!), Bing Maps. Developed by Microsoft partner Orion Technology and ESRI Canada , SelectOntario was launched February 4 th by the Ontario Minister of Economic Development and...
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 and its partners about technology trends that are solving business problems in their sector. One such technology is Bing Maps for visualization of location relevant data. (If you have been reading this blog long enough, you probably knew I would say that next!) The Bing Maps public sector team showed up at this event prepared to showcase some great applications for state and local government , including a new application from Microsoft partner, IS...
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 subsidiary, Vexcel Corporation , offers the Bing Maps Server (formerly the Virtual Earth Server) for just such scenarios. I've seen the Bing Maps Server in action and it is ripping fast. Meanwhile, it is scalable, from a laptop version to a rack mounted system, depending on how much data you need: city, county, state, even worldwide. The Vexcel team is hosting a webcast that provides details on the Bing Maps Server. Don't miss it! Details below...
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-time video feed being registered onto Bing Maps streetside imagery at Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington. Talk about the power of location! Take a look. -= Virtual Jerry
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 devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading.” TED holds annual conferences in annual conferences in Long Beach and Oxford bring together the world's most “fascinating thinkers and doers.” Included in Blaise’s presentation was the Streetside mode recently added to Bing Maps but with a new twist: the ability to mine Flickr for geotagged photos and overlay onto Bing Maps streetside imagery for a perfect visual lock. It’s...
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, visitors and housing development sectors of Arlington's economy. And it is now using Bing Maps to do all this better than even before! The web site is pretty straight forward and can be found here . The site allows users to visualize detailed data about principal buildings in the area, and to search by property name and location. The site also has links that take visitors directly to specific neighborhoods. Those links are listed at the bottom...
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 sensors. The imagery collected by the satellites is respectively 60 and 50 cm accurate and covers much of Haiti but centers around Port-Au-Prince just 10-16 kilometers from the earthquake’s epicenter and where the damage is extensive. The Bing Imagery Technologies team in Boulder, Colorado that is responsible for acquisition, processing and publishing of the imagery found in the Bing maps site, published this data in less than 16 hours...
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 of other Microsoft technologies that make up the Microsoft SingleView platform : Bing Maps , Sharepoint and SQL Server 2008 . SingleView brings together these Microsoft technologies to allow organizations to better manage their data and to collaborate around that data in a visual manner (thanks to Bing Maps!). It provides a consolidated, geo-spatial representation of an entire data and information landscape. You can deploy Microsoft SVP easily across...
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 a look for step-by-step instructions on getting and using those DLLs. BUT ... you can also see hear about all the latest and greatest from Bing Maps TODAY during the webcast Chris will be hosting. Get webcast information here . BETTER YET ... for those of you in the Reston, VA area ... it is not too late to register for the free Bing Maps Roadshow presentation at Microsoft's office there. See these features explained in person and get your questions...
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, Bing Maps is visiting Reston on December 14th from 1-5 PM. In addition to the agenda descibed in a previous blog post about the roadshow, we will be showcasing the new Bing Map features and how can integrate these capabilities into your applications. If you haven't already, register here for the event. -=Virtual Jerry
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 you to navigate fully stitched and continuous ground level photographs for a full 360 degree panoramic experience. There are many other great features that Bing Maps technical evangelist, Chris Pendleton, has covered in his blog entry today that you can read here and you can see videos on the topic here and here . But for a chance to look under the hood and see how to code your own cool mapping applications based on the Bing Maps Silverlight Control...
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 recently developed an application for the Northwest Florida Rural Area of Critical Economic Concern (NW RACEC) that, as part of the requirements to receive stimulus funding, needed to include map graphics showing a number of different data spatially in their submissions to the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) and Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP). Data types included demographic data from the 2000 Census at the Tract, Block Group...
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 partner, IDV Solutions . Visual Fusion is visual mashup software for the enterprise, a platform for creating interactive, visual applications utilizing the power of Microsoft’s Bing Maps, SharePoint, and SQL Server. Piracy Watch visualizes piracy incidents around the globe from 1978 to the present, displaying the data in both a map and a timeline. The two contexts of place and time work together as an integrated canvas for exploring the data...
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 portals, location intelligence, and other recent improvements, the Bing Maps Platform brings location data to life by making it easier to visualize, understand, and analyze. Ø Explore Ways Bing Maps Can Benefit Your Business Join Bing Maps experts, as they provide an overview of how the Bing Maps Platform can be a powerful visualization tool for geographic and location–based information. Learn solution implementation and best...
