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Microsoft now has an all-in-one fully integrated solution for city governments with the 311 Citizen Services Center. It combines the power of several Microsoft technologies and has both a citizen-facing portal and a back-end management module, including interactive Bing Maps for both components. When...

If you have looked at a Bing map in the last 24 hours you might have noticed a few new things about our road map style. So what did we change? Simply put, we made things easier to see. Based on many phases of usability testing we’ve made dozens of changes to improve our base road map style. The...

Over the past few months, we’ve been testing some enhancements to the Bing Maps interface that we’re excited to now make available for everyone. The most apparent changes are to our task and navigation controls, where—based on your feedback—we’ve made it easier to find the...

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 WP7 Bing Maps controls. You can watch his presentation...

Going to the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington DC next week? We are too. The Bing Maps team will be there in full force with lots of activities for you to immerse yourself with knowledge about Bing Maps, how Bing Maps are being used by Microsoft Partners via presentation by those partners...

Date: June 07, 2010 Event Start Time: 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (UTC - 4 hours) Duration: 1 hour The City of Miami , even when limited by a tight budget, looks for ways to improve the services it offers citizens. The city wanted to develop an online application to record, track and report on nonemergency...

As we continue to roll out more and more Streetside imagery for Bing Maps , I figured it was time to give my technical peeps out there a little sneak peak into how we create the Streetside user experience for Bing Maps. For those of you who don’t know, Streetside is the term for Bing Maps’...

Today, April 22, 2010, is the last of 3 webcasts we’ve produced in April to educate you on using the Bing Maps Platform in the Enterprise. I’ll be hosting the web cast today (!!!) at 9AM PDT and for the first time you’ll get to see me over live streaming video! Very chic! Today’s...

As part of Microsoft Learning, we’ve updated our exam for application development against the Bing Maps Platform . What’s this all about? For those of you who are new to Microsoft Learn, it’s all about getting certifications. Certifications lead to qualifications. Qualifications lead...

For a while now, I’ve blogged about the Virtual Earth Server and it’s offline capabilities for those of you who want Bing Maps imagery and data, but have internet connectivity limitations / requirements for behind-the-firewall-only use. If you’ve ever wanted to dive deeper into the...

Parlez-Vous Français? Well, if you do and you want to learn how to build applications using The Bing Maps Platform have I got a book for you. Yesterday, at Microsoft Tech Days France, I met Nicolas Boonaert who is the author of the first and only book about Bing Maps, “ Bing Maps - Guide...

Bing Maps is kicking off its UK user group inaugural event at the Microsoft office in London . Get in early as one of the inaugural members. The first meeting will be on January 13, 2010 from 6PM to 9PM. The Microsoft office is located at 100 Victoria Street, London . Here’s a bit about the event...

I'm putting together a web cast focused on the latest features of the Bing Maps Platform scheduled for Thursday December 10, 2009 @ 10AM PST. And, this time it's Level 200 so I get to show code! If you're already familiar with the Bing Maps Silverlight Control you may still want to tune in. I may surprise...

We’re kicking off a North American Road Show to bring the Bing Maps Platform expertise to you. First stop – Reston, VA (then, Chicago, IL). The Bing Maps Platform Road Show will illustrate the use of Bing Maps Platform diving deep into the APIs highlight some killer applications built atop...

The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) kicks off tomorrow and Bing Maps will have some fun, yet informative events going on. First off, if you’re at PDC you should follow the @BingMaps handle on Twitter for up to the minute information about what’s going on at the show. Plus...

Planning on entering NAVTEQ’s LBS Challenge ? Planning on using Bing Maps ? You should probably tune into my session to get the skinny on how the heck you’re going to do that. See my blog post, “ Bing Maps Globally Sponsors NAVTEQ’s 2010 LBS Challenge .” Register for my...

Very last minute, I know but it seriously just crept up on me! Register for the free web cast about the Virtual Earth Web Server and how Microsoft Partners like IDV Solutions are creating offline solutions for secure networks that need geographic data visualization using a plethora of content available...

I just booked my ticket for Berlin, Germany to attend Tech Ed Europe, 2009 . We have a packed agenda for Tech Ed Europe this year, so you better get your passports out; and, I’m going to be making my first visit to Germany just for you! If you can make it to Berlin November 10 - 12, you should...

I just booked my tickets to Las Vegas for the Microsoft SharePoint Conference . My session is on Tuesday, October 20 from 4:30 to 5:45 - “SPC271 Visualizing SharePoint Data with Bing Maps .” Come see how Bing Maps is changing the way people analyze business data. This session will provide...

I'm hosting a web cast on October 8, 2009 @ 10AM PDT to provide an overview of how you can benefit from Bing Maps geographic data visualizations from within your SharePoint portals. Register for the web cast on the Microsoft Events site . Here's the Marketing pitch: Viewing your business data in an efficient...