Maps Blog - Page 34

  • New Bing Maps Application: WorldWide Telescope

    About 2 years ago, I posted the announcement of Microsoft Research’s WorldWide Telescope (WWT) – a project to map out the stars, planets, solar systems and anything not on the Earth (see WorldWide Telescope Now Available!). That was some time ago and WorldWide Telescope has expanded its interfaces from a client based application, to a sharing of backyard astronomy information!
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  • SxSW Musings and Where the World Is

    I have 12 of the 16 new foursquare badges in hand, a brain full of ideas for what’s to come, and a brazen interpretation of the SXSW conference. I figured I’d share a few thoughts. Augmenting Maps with Reality. For those of you who came to my Bing panel, thank you!
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  • Embed Bing Maps Twitter Maps On Your Site

    NOW, you can embed our Twitter Maps functionality into your own web site. This means you can be cool by having a Bing Map on your web site, blog, favorite social networking site with the Tweets you care about. 
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  • Bing Maps Imagery Release, February 2010 (Part 2)

    Last month we pushed out our largest amount of new imagery EVER in terms of square kilometers. This month, we’re blowing THAT record out of the water. You thought 1 million+ sq. km. was large? How about 6.7 million square kilometers! It’s pretty much unfathomable. 
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  • Windows Phone and Bing Maps

    Last week at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, Spain I sat in the overflow room watching Steve Ballmer and Joel Belfiori announce Windows Phone 7 Series
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  • Bing Maps Imagery Release, January 2010 (Part 1)

    The Bing Maps imagery release for January 2010 release is SO BIG we had to break it into two parts – not kidding! The January 2010 Part 1 release is 558,000 square kilometers of imagery including the Sea to Sky Hwy from Vancouver to Squamish and beyond to Whistler
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  • Kroger Integrates Bing Maps

    Need to do a little grocery shopping? Chances are you’ll be shopping at a Kroger and not even know it. The grocery retail chain behind such huge brands as Ralphs, Food 4 Less and Fred Meyer (to name a few) is now officially moved their store locator experiences to the Bing Maps Platform. 
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