OpenStreetMap (OSM) is the newest layer for Bing Maps. OpenStreetMap follows a similar concept as Wikipedia, but for maps and other geographic facts (despite its name, it’s by no means only limited to streets and roads). A community of map lovers and developers gather location data across the globe and curate it to create OSM.
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Got a WordPress blog? Want to map out some information for your blog readers? Rich Gubby (@mobilewebjunkie) felt the need and wanted Bing Maps to do it. He took it a step further and created a WordPress plugin that allows for super simple configuration of a Bing Map that you can easily insert into your blog. Bing Maps for WordPress allows you to create maps easily with a [bingMap] shortcode in your posts.
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Did you know that Apple’s Safari browser has extensions that allow 3rd party services, such as Bing, to add on capabilities such as Bing Search, Bing Travel and arguably most important Bing Maps? Find out more at Microsoft Bing for Safari
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In coordination with Digital Map Products (DMP), developers can now easily overlay over 100 million US parcels to more easily identify boundaries between properties. Using a simple, native method in Bing Maps and DMP’s ParcelStream API with just 7 lines of code (yes, SEVEN) you can tap into this wonderful trove of parcel information.
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Is your company a Microsoft Partner? If not, why not join at Partners.Microsoft.com and check out Microsoft Inspire, a conference dedicated to Microsoft Partners https://myinspire.microsoft.com
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Today, we’re announcing a REST interface into those wonderful maps, aerial images, and geocoding and routing systems for your grubby coding hands to get all dirty. And, the beauty with REST is that you simply need to build URL queries and handle the JSON or XML responses. It’s quite beautiful actually and it’s essentially the way the WWW was architected, so the learning curve will be fairly flat.
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Another huge Bing Maps imagery release and this month features our Enhanced Bird’s Eye going worldwide. We now have Enhanced Bird’s eye worldwide with more urban models and the ability to view locations from a re-projected perspective, from all 4 cardinal directions, across the globe.
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Topics from Bing Maps Webcasts with links to the latest information on Bing Maps for Web, Logistics and Location Intelligence
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Facebook just launched in their Community pages which “are a new type of Facebook Page dedicated to a topic or experience that is owned collectively by the community connected to it.
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We made some updates to Bing Maps. In case it isn’t set as your homepage and you would like some additional context, I’d be happy to provide that for you. Here’s the bullet list: Walking Directions – Everyone in NYC will be relieved that they can use Bing Maps because we now have walking directions.
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