Maps

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…

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…

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…

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. …

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…

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…

This week a new application for Microsoft Virtual Earth launched. 3DVIA is an online app that lets you create 3-D models and share them through Virtual Earth and online communities. To use 3DVIA, you first need to "install 3D", the option available under the "Explore" section of…

It seems that lately, a lot of people have been using Virtual Earth to do some pretty amazing things. First there was this amazing DeepZoom thing and just recently, I located the blog belonging to the folks behind that project. Here, an older entry shows off a photo mosaic made with VirtualEarth…

The Virtual Earth team has just launched a new program called GoVE which lets state and local governments, municipalities, and aerial photographers share their own imagery with Microsoft and get it published on Virtual Earth. After checking out maps.live.com to verify that the imagery they have it…

Big news! Chris Pendleton is reporting that Ask.com has decided to forgo their mapping service in favor of the Virtual Earth platform. If you go to maps.ask.com now, you’ll see a Virtual Earth map. Chris notes that this choice is common among portal sites who realize that the upkeep involved in…