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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 , to learn howbusiness intelligence and data visualization...

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 ,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 grow and how to better stimulate business development...

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 for the agency's 2010 fiscal year, some stimulus...

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 public facing applications, typically to provide citizens...

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 be shared across your organization, by all stakeholders...

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 sector agencies that are going about mapping the...