Maps

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

This application just keeps getting better and better. My favorite part about this, is the 3D modeling feature in the authoring section. I love the way the tools we use to make our lives easier are more and more turning into mini-games. Besides that they've done a seamless blend of 3D imagery…

Back in February, Microsoft acquired a company called Caligari mainly for their 3D modeling and animation software, trueSpace. As of now, trueSpace is available for download – for free. With trueSpace, you can create high-resolution models, landscapes, buildings, and more for Virtual Earth and Live…

The Bing Maps service recently received a major update this week with a slew of new features including draggable routes, a zoom bar, command parsing, embeddable maps, new navigation, and more. The updated Bing Maps also loads faster thanks to a reduced homepage size (it went from from 678KB to…