Maps Blog - Posts tagged with 'Learn About Bing Maps'

Hey teachers, students, parents and geography lovers, did you know that this week is Geography Awareness Week? It was established by the National Geographic Society 25 years ago to encourage American citizens to “think and learn about the significance of place and how we affect and are affected by it.” 
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Technical Evangelist and host of Visual Studio Toolbox, Robert Green,  is joined by Bing Maps Program Manager, Johannes Kebeck who demonstrates how easy it is to add maps to your application.  Johannes reviews features of Bing Maps, shows you how to use the Bing Maps AJAX Control Version 7.0 Interactive SDK to see what JavaScript code you would write to perform a variety of actions with maps and demonstrates both a Web and Windows Store project in...
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If you have looked at a Bing map in the last 24 hours you might have noticed a few new things about our road map style. The result is a new style designed to communicate more important information at a glance.
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Over the past few months, we’ve been testing some enhancements to the Bing Maps interface that we’re excited to now make available for everyone. The most apparent changes are to our task and navigation controls, where—based on your feedback—we’ve made it easier to find the most common actions to complete your task at hand. 
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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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Topics from Bing Maps Webcasts with links to the latest information on Bing Maps for Web, Logistics and Location Intelligence
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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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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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Bing Maps will be presenting with the ESRI and Accela teams at The Accela User Conference. 
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Gur Kimchi (Bing Maps infrastructure Architect and Development Manager) sat down in an episode of Expert to Expert on Channel 9 to discuss the evolution of Bing Maps (formerly Microsoft Virtual Earth). The interview goes pretty deep in discussing how the original Virtual Earth was built based on a Bill Gates approved Think Week Paper and a production-based prototype was done in 100 days; the comparison to Google’s investment in maps and...
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