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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 ,...

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...

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...

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...

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...