Inefficient driving routes between multiple waypoints waste time, money, and wear on people’s patience. Beginning today, Bing has set out to help reduce the stress and wasted time caused by inefficient driving routes with the launch of the “RouteSavvy”...

Microsoft Gold Partner IDV Solutions just released Visual Fusion 5.0 , business intelligence software that unites data sources in a web-based, visual context for better insight and understanding. Bing Maps has long been a focal point for data visualization...

Bing Maps continues its commitment to empowering educators and students with the “Shout!” map app. The Shout! program invites educators and students to take an active role in global environmental issues and connects experts in the field to...

This week, a Bing Maps mash-up developed by ShootHill was launched on UNCHR.org to show geographical information on refugees, refugee assistance offices, and refugee-related stories from around the globe. Since 1950, “UNHCR has protected refugees...

This new campaign is a great integration with Bing Maps. Thanks to the Bing Search team for writing this blog. Later this week, I'll dive more into how Bing Maps was integrated into this campaign. For now, check out http://www.bing.com/jayz - Brian...

Early previews of Windows Phone 7 have shown some pretty powerful integration of Bing Maps. Last week, Chris Pendleton spoke at the Seattle Silverlight Group's Summer Series to provide potential WP7 app developers an overview of Bing Maps and the...

The following is a guest post from Steve Milroy of OnTerra Systems, the developer for the Bing Education Map App, on the architecture and design of map app using Azure and Bing Maps. He also recently developed the DonorsChoose.org and Teach Here map apps...

A couple of weeks ago we announced Bing Maps is going mobile as the default map control on Windows Phone 7. Today it’s my turn to follow up with news of more goodness from Bing - new routing and geocoding features for Bing Maps REST Services –...

In August , Portland foodies cheered when we launched the Bing Food Cart Finder map app to provide a better search experience to discover the city’s amazing food carts and help make decisions about which one to eat at super easy and fun. Since the...

Over two years ago, the Bing Maps blog highlighted MapDotNet , which is a suite of geospatial visualization, analysis, and integration products created by ISC . They have a lot of very interesting examples of how their product has been applied –...

A while ago Chris Pendleton had blogged about the new map style that has become the default in our consumer facing AJAX and Silverlight sites. With the latest update to our Bing Maps AJAX control you can now also optionally enable this new style in your...

What did you do on your summer vacation this year? I got sunburned and helped my son Harry catch his first fish. Pretty good summer, I thought. Meet Viswa Mani. He spent the summer on the Microsoft intern program, joining our search test team. His TweetHeat...

I was reading Fox Sports this morning and noticed that the Pittsburgh Steelers are ranked number 1 in the Power Rankings as we enter the 4th week of the NFL season (and my lowly Chargers are off to another slow start ranked 18, ugh). And, with the Steelers...