Maps Blog - Page 35

  • eHarmony Locates Love with Bing Maps

    ‘Tis the season to find romance at one of the top relationship sites on the web today. eHarmony is now using Bing Maps to help you determine how far you’d be willing to travel to meet the highly compatible people they match to you.  When you choose your distance settings on eHarmony you can see how wide a radius that distance covers. 
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  • Bing Maps Platform Road Show – North America

    We kickied off a North American Road Showthat brought the Bing Maps Platform expertise to you.  The Bing Maps Platform Road Show will illustrated the use of Bing Maps Platform diving deep into the APIs highlight some killer applications built atop the platform. If you missed it, go to Microsoft.com/maps to get started.
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  • Released: Bing Maps UK

    If you’re in the UK and go to Bing Maps via Bing.com/maps you will get unique options available for the UK market like Ordinance Survey.
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  • Bing Maps Terms of Use Changes; Benefit Educators, Not-for-Profits and Developers

    I mentioned in my “Bing Maps Silverlight Control 1.0 Released” blog post that we altered the Bing Maps terms of use and it would require a post all on its own. Well, here’s why. We’ve made a bunch of changes which makes things easier to understand, easier to use and easier to get started. The way the mapping industry grew up, depended on counting transactions. A transaction is either (a) a geocoding request/response, a...
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  • The Scottish Government Goes with Bing Maps Platform

     The Scottish Government launched their Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) site which identifies small area concentrations of multiple deprivation across all of Scotland in a fair way and allows effective targeting of policies and funding where the aim is to wholly or partly tackle or take account of area concentrations of multiple deprivation is now using a Bing Maps interface to visualize their data. 
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