,I’d like to highlight HeyGov!, a solution that uses MapDotNet, Bing Maps, and Azure to communicate and manage 311 issues for governments and citizens. Earlier this year, ISC won a Windows Azure contest for the best US Public Sector Application and used the winning application as the foundation for HeyGov!.
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Hoovers, a Dun & Bradstreet Company, just launched a new beta mapping feature on their site that allows you to lookup businesses and visualize demographic information on and around a respective company. For those who don’t know, Hoovers offers proprietary business information through the Internet, data feeds, wireless devices, and co-branding agreements with other online services.
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Bing Maps will be presenting with the ESRI and Accela teams at The Accela User Conference.
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ESRI made a huge push into enterprise mapping today with the launch of its MapIt product…this just got interesting! Ok, so what is MapIt? Well, it turns out it’s a lot of things, but in a nut shell “ESRI MapIt™ is a lightweight Web mapping gateway to SQL Server 2008.
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I just want to give IDV Solutions a huge shout out today. I dragged myself in to work after waking to another dreary Seattle morning. Hoping the coffee would perk me up…bring out the fail whale. However, this morning I finally got some time to investigate the latest version of IDV’s Visual Fusion (4.0). After just a few clicks, I am re-inspired to take on the mapping world – which is good because I have a web cast here in 30...
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I’ve had a couple inquiries about heat maps of late, so wanted to ensure people are aware of the capabilities enabled and resources available for creating heat maps with Virtual Earth.Check out some of our great samples at Samples.BingMapsPortal.com
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The Australian National Diabetes Services Scheme published an interesting Virtual Earth map application illustrating the spread and penetration of diabetes across the country.
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There’s a new initiative at Microsoft to bring together different parts of the company under a single umbrella to prove the whole is greater than the sum of all it’s parts. The Public Sector initiative, dubbed "The Single View Platform" brings several different Microsoft products together to form a SUPER geographically-based, data visualization product suite.
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There are certain areas of the world where Virtual Earth’s imagery is, well, low resolution. Did you know that you can overlay your own imagery to "patch" it?
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Today, we’re announcing a closer and much deeper relationship with ESRI by integrating Bing Maps Virtual Earth tiles into their ArcGIS Desktop product.
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