Maps

During this module, developers learn how to leverage the new Location API and new Maps Controls with Windows Phone 8. Primary topics include the Windows Phone Runtime Location API, acquiring the phone's current location, continuously tracking the phone's location, running location-tracking apps in…

Turns out that sales taxes are more difficult to calculate than it might seem. More than 15,000 taxable regions inside the US form a mosiac for sales tax calculation. Fire districts, state districts, special taxation districts, and state rules on items all play a part. Avalara put…

John Mulhausen walks you through building a very quick application that will take you from zero to seeing yourself travelling on a map in real-time in just 15 minutes. The Location Service for Windows Phone 7 uses a combination of GPS, cell-tower data, and even Wi-Fi data to determine the phone's…

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…

SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 introduces new map integration. The new map features in SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services that make it easy to visualize spatial data. In this presentation i demo how to use the map wizard to create 2 layes of sales data visuaization on USA map gallary. …

Mashable just launched a new website function that highlights Local Twitter Trends on a Bing Map. The application is intended to give devoted Mashable readers a sense of trending topics in selected areas around the world. Wondering what people are tweeting about in New York? Click the pin…

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…

“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…

As appears to be the pattern with Bing lately, the service has just released another slew of updates that deliver new features to the increasingly popular search engine. These updates include new and improved features like autosuggest, local events, and destination maps as well as other updates to…

In this episode of Lessons Learned I chat with Rex Hansen of ESRI.  Rex works on MapIt; a product for visualizing enterprise data on maps.  This was recently released as a on-premises product that enables developers to work with the tabular and spatial data in SQL Server 2008 and…