Sound Transit: Riding the Bing Maps Wave

Sound Transit: Riding the Bing Maps Wave

Sound Transit has launched their new public transit system featuring Bing Maps and leveraging their repository of public transit information to create a trip planner for Seattleites to get around town. 
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REST Easy; Bing Maps Has You Covered

REST Easy; Bing Maps Has You Covered

Today, we’re announcing a REST interface into those wonderful maps, aerial images, and geocoding and routing systems for your grubby coding hands to get all dirty. And, the beauty with REST is that you simply need to build URL queries and handle the JSON or XML responses. It’s quite beautiful actually and it’s essentially the way the WWW was architected, so the learning curve will be fairly flat.
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Mapping Balloon Travel Patterns

Mapping Balloon Travel Patterns

Richard Jones at Binary Refinery pinged me about this fun thing to do / scientific experiment with balloons and maps so I thought I would share some samples that you could use to build your own tracking solution.
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Cleveland Rocks!

Cleveland Rocks!

O-HIO! This is pretty awesome. The State of Ohio’s Department of Transportation has rolled out a site for all you Buckeyes (and those of you living in the Ohio who didn’t go to The Ohio State University). Navigate to BuckeyeTraffic.org and you’ll see a huge bing map!
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Drawing Tools for Virtual Earth

Drawing Tools for Virtual Earth

I get asked by developers a lot about how they can leverage the nifty drawing tools that are on Microsoft Maps. Well, you can try them yourself at https://samples.bingmapsportal.com/?search=drawing
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