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Mapnik is the latest option added to Bing Maps, on top of Road, Aerial, Bird’s Eye, and Dynamic, for viewing content. This is in fact the OpenStreetMap mode which has been introduced to Microsoft’s mapping, search and location platform, as the Redmond company unveiled a new layer and App for the gallery. ... |
3 August 2010
07:16 GMT |
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Open Street Map has been on a roll lately. A big partnership with AOL’s MapQuest has only been announced and now Bing joins the party as well. Data from Open Street Map will now be available as a separate layer in Bing Maps offering an alternative to the regular mapping data Microsoft provides with the help of ... |
3 August 2010
04:58 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Eye on Earth, a project designed to allow Europeans to literally keep an eye on various sites across the continent and monitor important environmental data, has evolved, now integrating the company’s mapping, search, and location platform, closer than ever. Eye on Earth will turn two years old... |
20 July 2010
08:05 GMT |
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There are a lot of ways of viewing a location in Google Maps, the plain map view, the satellite view, Street View and so on, and now you can add another to the list, aerial view. Google calls it 45 degree imagery, and it’s easy to see why, believe it or not, the perspective is at 45 degrees. The new layer is on... |
10 July 2010
04:45 GMT |
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The greatest cycling competition, the Tour de France, just got underway yesterday and lovers of the sport have every reason to be excited. For the next 21 days, the world’s best riders will battle it out for the greatest honor in cycling, to be the winner of the Tour de France. A lot of people will be camping o... |
5 July 2010
06:42 GMT |
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Bing Maps is gaining more and more popularity with Internet users lately, the platform being constantly enhanced with new functionalities. The latest addition, which was released to the public on Monday, June 14, is WeatherBug for Bing Maps App, developed by a prominent provider of extensive weather services and crea... |
15 June 2010
01:47 GMT |
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A new application now live in the Bing Maps Gallery meshes together Microsoft’s online mapping, location and search tool with Facebook. The My Friends application for Bing Maps is designed to tap the user’s Facebook account in order to get information from the social network. According to Chris Pendleton,... |
14 June 2010
06:53 GMT |
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Users that want an easy way to get an overall perspective on the evolution of the 2010 FIFA World Cup can now turn to Bing Maps. Microsoft’s online mapping, location and search platform now features an application designed to let football/soccer fans easily explore World Cup activity. The World Cup map app on B... |
14 June 2010
04:42 GMT |
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Microsoft has opened up its online mapping, search and location platform to third-party developers, and is making it easy for them to build applications on top of Bing Maps. Essentially, the Redmond company is offering devs the Bing Map App software development kit, streamlining the process of creating Map Apps for B... |
8 June 2010
08:56 GMT |
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Believe it or not, but it’s not always “healthy” to turn to search engines for medical information, to the detriment of real physicians, since not all sources of info can be trusted. Still, there are exceptions to this rule, and the latest Cloud application from Bing Maps is an excellent example in ... |
3 June 2010
09:37 GMT |
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A new Bing Maps application is designed to offer an overall perspective over piracy incidents worldwide. Bing Maps Piracy Watch allows users to get an overview of pirate attacks around the world, but also additional information on specific cases. Built on top of Microsoft’s mapping, location and search platform... |
18 May 2010
06:01 GMT |
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No less than two years have passed since Microsoft introduced a new initiative designed to democratize access to astronomical data. It was on May 12th, 2008, that the WorldWide Telescope was released, and now the project developed by Microsoft Research is entering its second year of life. The two-year anniversary wou... |
13 May 2010
05:49 GMT |
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A new application built on top of Bing Maps is designed to make it simple for people to access information on humanitarian and ecological initiatives, but also culture preservation and exploration efforts worldwide, and to contribute by donating, volunteering, sharing knowledge, or simply spreading the word. The Glob... |
11 May 2010
06:16 GMT |
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The latest update to Microsoft’s mapping, location and search platform has internationalized one of the features recently introduced to Bing Maps, namely Enhanced Bird’s Eye. Chris Pendleton, the Bing Maps technical evangelist for Microsoft, revealed that Enhanced Bird’s Eye had gone global, allowin... |
10 May 2010
11:09 GMT |
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Although Microsoft only released Streetside on Bing Maps at the start of December 2009, the technology was initially introduced over 2.5 years before, via a technology preview of Live Search Maps. In the video embedded at the bottom of this article, users will be able to see Chris Pendleton, the Bing Maps technical e... |
6 May 2010
07:30 GMT |
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The last day in March 2010 brought with it new updates to Microsoft’s mapping, search and location platform. In this regard, the Redmond company introduced in excess of 6.2 million square kilometers of new imagery that it divided into a couple of releases. At the same time, the software giant kicked up a notch ... |
1 April 2010
10:03 GMT |
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Microsoft’s mapping, location and search platform grows continuously with the addition of new features, and the latest step in the service’s evolution is no exception to this rule. Users of the Silverlight-based version of Bing Maps will be able to notice and take advantage of new additions to the platfor... |
31 March 2010
07:40 GMT |
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While Bing Maps is free for end users, there are exceptions to this rule. For example, commercial usage of Microsoft’s mapping, location and search platform needs to be licensed from the company. However, the software giant has made several steps in the past few months, designed to relax the Terms of Use assoc... |
22 March 2010
11:35 GMT |
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Photosynth, a Microsoft technology that lets end users create synths, 3D navigable spaces by stitching together 2D images, will be an integral part of the company’s vision of augmented reality. The software giant unveiled recently its concept of spatial exploration, courtesy of architect Blaise Agüera y Ar... |
19 March 2010
11:17 GMT |
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Having expanded both Bing Maps and WorldWide Telescope with Silverlight, it was only natural for Microsoft to bridge the two projects, which even at a conceptual level, belong together. Earlier this week the software giant’s mapping, location and search platform grew with the addition of “a universe&rdqu... |
19 March 2010
09:17 GMT |
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Microsoft is not only adding new content to its mapping, location and search platform on a regular basis, but also making sure to break the records it sets in terms of the size of the updates. The latest imagery refresh offered to Bing Maps users covers no less than 6.7 million square kilometers, and, according to th... |
8 March 2010
09:00 GMT |
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Some of you may already know that Microsoft unveiled its next-generation mobile platform and experience in mid-February at the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. Joe Belfiore, vice president, Windows Phone, did an extensive on-stage presentation of a Windows Phone 7 device at the conference, demonstratin... |
22 February 2010
06:29 GMT |
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Bing Maps’ evolution is without a doubt a multifaceted growth, with Microsoft making sure that the mapping, search and location platform moves forward in a variety of aspects. The past week, Bing Maps evolved with both new features and capabilities as well as with the addition of new content. At the end of the ... |
15 February 2010
06:16 GMT |
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In less than a year since Virtual Earth and Live Search Maps were transitioned under the Bing brand umbrella, Microsoft’s mapping, search and location platform has evolved constantly and is spoiling users with some amazing features. Integration is at the core of Bing Maps’ evolution, a key element bridgin... |
12 February 2010
09:54 GMT |
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Microsoft has introduced a massive imagery update for its mapping, search and location platform at the start of 2010. So massive, in fact, that the Redmond company has had to break the refresh into half and make the content available via two different updates. In total, the new imagery release delivered to Bing Maps... |
4 February 2010
04:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has kicked off a new challenge designed to test the familiarity of users with New York and its mapping, search and location platform. According to the Redmond company, no less than two $100 MasterCard gift cards are up for grabs for participants in the Bing Maps Challenge. Users need only answer a few quest... |
26 January 2010
07:09 GMT |
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A new Cloud application from Microsoft is now available for end users around the world that want to witness the devastation produced by the recent earthquakes in Haiti. Haiti Earthquake is an app built on top of the Bing Maps platform, allowing users to compare imagery before the January 12 temblor, and after t... |
22 January 2010
06:15 GMT |
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The latest iteration of Microsoft’s mapping, search and location platform needed less than two months in the baking oven as a Beta test release. Introduced at the start of December 2009, the Silverlight-based flavor of Bing Maps has now graduated from Beta stage and was released to web. Chris Pendleton, the Bin... |
20 January 2010
08:51 GMT |
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When it introduced the evolved version of Streetside with the new Silverlight-based Bing Maps Beta at the start of December 2009, Microsoft promised that it would deliver additional coverage beyond what was initially available. By the end of 2009, the Redmond company started living up to its promise. The Bing Maps Im... |
6 January 2010
06:47 GMT |
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Having transitioned all former Live Search properties and projects under the Bing brand umbrella earlier this year, Microsoft is offering users much more than just a search/decision engine. In this regard, Bing is a more complex package, an important part of which is the company’s mapping, search, and location... |
17 December 2009
04:54 GMT |
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Aiming to drive commitment and support of actions against climate change, Microsoft unveiled a new Cloud-based application during the COP 15 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, today, December 14th. Built in partnership with the European Environment Agency (EEA), the Environmental Atlas of Europe ... |
14 December 2009
09:55 GMT |
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Microsoft plans nothing short of a massive expansion of Bing Maps with the addition of 3D map data and visuals designed to kick up a notch the recently introduced Streetside feature. At the start of this month, the Redmond company unveiled the new Bing Maps Beta built entirely in Silverlight. Via Streetside, Bing Map... |
9 December 2009
10:29 GMT |
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A cocktail of Microsoft technologies is the catalyst for what the company has called the first big refresh of the technology behind Bing Maps in years. By mixing together not just the mapping, search and location platform, but also Photosynth, Silverlight and Seadragon, along with additional technologies from Live La... |
3 December 2009
03:21 GMT |
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Both Adobe’s Flash and Microsoft’s Silverlight are key technologies for developers that want to build Rich Internet Applications. However, the general rule of RIAs is that they only seldom leverage a single source for the content they offer to end users. In fact, RIAs and mash-ups are concepts that functi... |
2 December 2009
05:51 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to push forward with efforts to expand its mapping, search and location platform. While Bing Maps, formerly Virtual Earth and Live Search Maps, is essentially a Cloud based application covering the entire world, the company does focus on specific markets more than on others. Case in point: Bing Ma... |
20 November 2009
07:12 GMT |
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Leave your stakes and your silver bullets at home while visiting landmarks of the latest chapter in the Twilight saga to hit movie screens worldwide, but by all means make sure that you have Microsoft Silverlight in place. At the same time, knowing your way around Bing Maps wouldn’t hurt either. MSN Movies has ... |
17 November 2009
07:36 GMT |
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Microsoft’s mapping, location, and search platform is an integral part of the experience offered to end users by YeallowPages.com, but the Redmond company and AT&T Interactive (the owner of the Yellow Pages.com website) have taken it one step further. In this regard, users that will access the mobile flav... |
9 November 2009
05:26 GMT |
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Online mapping services are becoming increasingly popular and useful and, as a result of that, more profitable for those running them. All the big players are present in the space, Google, of course, which started it all, but also Yahoo and Microsoft. They each have their advantages, but what most people don't r... |
5 November 2009
11:26 GMT |
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Microsoft is moving forward with its tradition of releasing massive updates to its mapping, search and location platform. According to the Redmond company, the latest refresh to Bing Maps, formerly referred to as Virtual Earth, introduces an additional 9,460 square kilometers of imagery. Although Microsoft only offe... |
4 November 2009
09:03 GMT |
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Finding a connection between a certain location and a domain name is the task central to GeoDomainMap. Offered by GoDaddy, GeoDomainMap is a Cloud-based application designed to help customers discover, explore and buy domain names that are associated with certain locations in North America. This just in case you woul... |
22 October 2009
07:31 GMT |
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And indeed, Microsoft has launched a Bing rocket. Not the Redmond company itself, but rather DigitalGlobe, one of the software giant’s partners and supplier of satellite imagery for Bing Maps. The past week, DigitalGlobe’s Boeing Delta II 7920 rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California t... |
16 October 2009
08:05 GMT |
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iGeo is a geo-tagging service designed to take advantage of the Microsoft and Google mapping, search and location platforms. Set up to enrich online text on websites, iGeo can leverage either Google Earth or Bing Maps, in order to expand the content related to specific geographical locations with links to the associa... |
17 September 2009
09:01 GMT |
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Microsoft’s on-premise variant of Bing Maps has evolved to the next level. At the start of this month, Vexcel Corporation, a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary, announced that version 2.0 of the Microsoft Virtual Earth Server is now available for customers. Essentially, with Microsoft Virtual Earth Servers, cust... |
2 September 2009
06:24 GMT |
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Microsoft has made it a tradition to extend the new content available to end users via Bing Maps from month to month. In this context, August makes no exception to this rule, with the month bringing with it yet another refresh for the Redmond company’s mapping, search and location platform. For August 2009, Mic... |
1 September 2009
09:59 GMT |
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ESRI (UK) and Bing Maps have introduced a new contest designed to let developers build Geographic Information Systems mashups that bridge Microsoft’s mapping, search and location platform with the ArcGIS Server. ESRI is ready to offer an Xbox system to the winner of the competition, but participation is limited... |
1 September 2009
07:03 GMT |
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The official label of the PHP Toolkit for Bing Maps Web Service might just be descriptive enough to give away the functionality. But if you haven’t figured it out from just the name, the toolkit is designed to allow developers building PHP websites to seamlessly integrate Bing Maps. Chris Pendleton, Virtual Ear... |
17 August 2009
08:46 GMT |
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Microsoft introduced the second major update to Bing Maps since the Cloud mapping, search and location service was rebranded at the end of May 2009. The latest refresh to what used to be Live Search Maps (Virtual Earth) brings to the table no less than 41 Terabytes of new imagery and map data. Chris Pendleton, the Vi... |
10 August 2009
07:50 GMT |
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Bing Maps, formerly Live Search Maps/Virtual Earth, is not limited at just a mapping, search and location service, it is also offering companies a Cloud platform designed to put their applications in a geographic perspective. One such example is Save Our Sounds, an initiative designed to invite users of Bing Maps to ... |
24 June 2009
09:22 GMT |
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How did Microsoft manage to get all the way to Bing Maps? As many of you already know, Bing Maps is the result of the rebranding of Live Search Maps. The start of June 2009 brought with it the death of Live Search, the search engine and the brand. In this context, Microsoft transitioned not only its search engine, bu... |
19 June 2009
09:41 GMT |
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An initiative put together by Microsoft and the European Environment Agency (EEA) designed to monitor the water quality at bathing spots across Europe and share the information with users has evolved. The Redmond company informed that Eye on Earth – Water Watch had been updated with 2009 information revealing t... |
19 June 2009
06:09 GMT |
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