Bing Maps has released a new feature – The Bing London Journey Planner. This is the first time a major UK mapping site has integrated London tube and bus routes into point to point journey planning. Bing brings together bus, tube and walking information with visual organisation to provide all the information and tools people need to plan their journeys around London.
The Bing London Journey Planner provides detailed information about the...
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On Tuesday 1st March members of the Bing Maps team will join partners Infusion and Earthware to discuss what the future has in store for Bing Maps.
The webcast titled “What’s New with Bing™ Maps” will last 40-minutes and cover an array of topics including:
Insight and practical development tips from Microsoft partners Earthware and Infusion
A dive into the features of the new Bing Maps AJAX Control 7.0
A look at how to...
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Following the success of our Bing Maps event in October, the Bing UK team is proud to announce our next installment.
If you want to hear the latest from the Bing Maps User Community, the next event is being held on Wednesday 19th January at the British Computer Society. The event will feature one main session updating everyone on the latest releases and there will be demos from members of the group. Johannes Kebeck from Microsoft will be...
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In our last post of the week we are focusing on Bing Maps.
Bing Maps offers you a variety of tools to help you complete mapping tasks. You can view your map in a different styles including A=Z Barholomew, Ordnance Survey and Bird’s Eye view. You can also search for local businesses, hotels and underground stations. You can get directions, drag and drop your planned routes, or find and book a restaurant.
Here’s a rundown of Bing...
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The Multimap team have been hard at work building a new version of Bing Maps for the UK, and are now ready to share the experience with Multimap users.
Recently Multimap users have been invited to try the Bing Maps experience and tell us what they think. Using their feedback the most popular features from Multimap as well as some new ones have been combined to form the latest Bing Maps experience.
These include:
Five map style choices, including...
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Hot off the press, you can now check out “The World Cup Map“. This is a joint project between aerial filming and stock footage experts Skyworks, and interactive web mapping interface specialists Earthware.
In this demo, you can see the new stadiums that South Africa has built for the World Cup along with details on what games are being played in which stadium and ability to download the schedule into your calendar....
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