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, be sure to attend the upcoming webcast "Build More Powerful Solutions with Bing Maps", scheduled for Thursday December 10, 2009 @ 10AM PST. Details are below.
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Build More Powerful Solutions with Bing Maps (Level 200) Attend this webcast to learn how recent updates to the Bing Maps platform can help you build more compelling Web mapping solutions. Developers already using the Bing Maps platform can visualize data in more innovative, powerful, and faster ways, and developers who are newly deploying Bing Maps can develop mapping solutions more easily than was previously possible.
The Bing Maps platform brings location data to life by making it easier to visualize, understand, and analyze. The rich imagery, quality geospatial data, and leading-edge technology of Bing Maps is already being used by thousands of organizations, governments, and developers worldwide. Choose from four robust APIs to build innovative applications that allow you to better display data, excite end users, and improve business insight.
-=Virtual Jerry
