Bing Maps

The Bing Search team just blogged about the upcoming changes to the Bing Maps platform this spring. Most notably, Foursquare, the hot location-based service, will be integrated into Bing Maps by way of a map application that shows check-ins. If you’re unfamiliar, Foursquare is a location service…

Oodle Rentals is the latest Bing map application to arrive in the Bing Maps gallery. With this layer turned on, rental properties featured on the online classified site oodle.com will display on the map. You can filter your searches by price, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, type of property, and…

Another big release for Bing Maps is here! This rapidly improving service now includes a handful of new features like walking directions, draggable routing flags, improved mini-maps, and more. With Bing’s Walking Directions, you can now calculate the route and time it takes to walk between two…

Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope project has just been integrated with Bing Maps via a new Bing Maps application. The WWT project connects users to all the major telescopes in the world and the images they’ve captured via a client application that either runs on the desktop or in the web browser…

According to a recent post from the Bing Search Team, the Twitter Maps application in the Bing Maps Application Gallery has been updated to allow for map embeds. The Twitter Maps app, if you’re unfamiliar, is a “mapplication” (map + app) that lets you see nearby tweets overlaid on top of a Bing…

“Local Lens” is one of Bing’s cooler features that displays hyperlocal content from various blogs on Bing Maps. Once enabled, snippets from blog posts appear in the sidebar when viewing a specific locale in the maps service. The feature, introduced late last year, is one of Bing’s many…

Did you know there’s a Bing app for the iPhone? Yep, and it’s been there since this December, too. Although you can’t change out the iPhone’s default search engine, you can move the iPhone icons around to position the Bing app on your homescreen for easy access. With Bing’s app, you get a…

The Bing Maps team wants to hear from you on how they can make the new Maps Platform even better. For consumers, the Maps team has already added a number of new features over the past few months including map embeds and draggable routes, Streetside views and Photosynth integration, local events and…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including: Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RC is now available for everyone to download Interesting because: The RC Editor performance is much improved over Beta 2 Charles Torre - Charles interviews Jason Zander on…

In this video demo, Phil Newman, a program manager on the InfoPath product team shows how to add a dynamic map to a SharePoint Contacts list form using InfoPath 2010 and a Bing Maps REST Web Service data connection. For full instructions see our post on the InfoPath Team Blog.