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Bing Maps Platform Road Show – North America

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

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

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 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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YellowPages.com’s Mobile Efforts with Bing Maps

YellowPages.com’s Mobile Efforts with Bing Maps

For the past years, I’ve worked closely with Yellow Pages (owned by AT&T Interactive) getting Bing Maps onto their Yellow Pages.com web site; however, they’ve also been working on some mobile applications that use Bing Maps. You can see the applications from your mobile browser 
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