Bing Maps

ISV Discovery Day Belgium Session : Building applications with Bing Maps : what is the opportunity for ISVs Speaker : Johannes Kebeck, Microsoft Account TechnicalSpecialist Mappoint ' Microsoft UK

Customizable, embeddable Bing Maps are now available to WordPress bloggers by way of a new plugin. The “Bing Maps for WordPress” plugin created by Rich Gubby lets you easily insert mini maps into your blog posts using a [bingMap] shortcode in your posts. You don’t have to worry about how the maps…

When the Bing Team announced that they were holding a contest for developers to create new Bing Map applications, called the “King of Bing Maps,” the blogosphere soon erupted with news of one of the entries: the Taxi Fare calculator. The Taxi Fare Calculator app was developed by Ricky…

Although Chris Pendleton previously reported on a Bing Maps plugin for WordPress back in July, Johannes Kebeck of the Bing team recently came across an alternative: the Silverlight Bing Maps plugin. Developed by Regart.net, this plugin lets you install an interactive maps on your WordPress site…

Bing’s latest update expands the search service from being a simple “decision engine” to being a Web destination in and of itself. With the new upgrade, rolling out now, Bing has added an entertainment vertical featuring music, TV shows, movies and games. You can land on Bing’s new entertainment…

As you look at things like Bing's Streetside, you might be thinking it would be great for something like real time driving directions. Billy Chen, a research in MSN's Advanced Engineering team, has been thinking about this from the ground up. The result is this interesting way of connecting the…

No, not Street “Side” view, Street “Slide” view. Engadget (via MIT’s Technology Review) uncovered a cool Microsoft Research project called “Street Slide” view. The project attempts to create a new interface for viewing the street-level photos used in online applications like Bing Maps Streetside…

How much will that taxi ride cost you? A new Bing Maps application can give you the answer. The Taxi Fare Calculator app was developed by Ricky Brundritt for the King of Bing Maps competition. As you may imagine, the app lets you enter in a starting address and end address and then see…

Bing Maps has added “OpenStreetMap” as the newest layer available to its online mapping service. It’s also available as a standalone Bing Map App from the Bing Maps gallery. OpenStreetMap (OSM), for those of you unfamiliar, is a project to create an open-source, freely editable map of the…

The Microsoft Research team behind the WorldWide Telescope project (WWT) have just announced the addition of new imagery from Mars, courtesy of NASA. Now, WWT users can explore what is, to date, the most complete and high-resolution imagery available and view new, interactive tours of the planet…