Bing Maps
Summary
Bing Maps (previously Live Search Maps, Windows Live Maps and Windows Live Local) is a web mapping service provided as a part of Microsoft's Bing suite of search engines and powered by the Bing Maps for Enterprise framework.Users can browse and search topographically-shaded street maps for many cities worldwide. Maps include certain points of interest built-in, such as metro stations, stadiums, hospitals, and other facilities. It is also possible to browse public user-created points of interest. Search can cover public collections, businesses or types of business, locations, or people.For some countries, like South Africa, and South Korea, Bing Maps has data on highways and some arterial roads, but lacks local streets or alleys.
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#Tip of the day for journalists: Verifying locations featured in videos
Each week social news wire Storyful is publishing a blog post outlining a key skill for journalists, and this week looks at ways to verify locations featured in a video using online tools. This includes reference to tools such as Google Translate, Panoramio, Google Maps, OpenStreetmap, Bing Maps and Flickr, as well as many more.
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Microsoft And Nokia Have A Crazy Deal To Stick 'Nokia' On Every Bing Maps Page (MSFT, NOK)
". . . part of the relationship we established with Microsoft is that we are clearly placing a bet on the Windows Phone platform. [In return] they are placing a bet on our location-based platform: mapping, navigation and so forth. ".
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Mobile Lowdown 8-5-11
—HTC posts record monthly sales, plans to acquire mobile service provider Dashwire (The Next Web).
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The 13 Coolest Features In Windows Phone 7's "Mango" Update (MSFT)
We were at the Windows Phone "Mango" big reveal today, and we came away impressed.
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Google Attacks Huge New Market With "Earth Builder" (GOOG)
Google will let government agencies and big organizations store and process massive geographic data in the cloud on Google's servers, saving them from spending money on their own hardware.
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Microsoft rival to Google Street View set for German launch
Microsoft Germany has announced the launch of its Bing Maps Streetside service, a competitor to Google's Street View, which launched in November 2010 after many months of controversy in Germany. "We have a plan for the next 18 months for about 50 cities in Germany," said Thomas Baumgartner, a spokesperson for Microsoft Germany, in an interview with Deutsche Welle.
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Microsoft And Google Team Up To Go After Mapping Patent Troll
It takes a lot to get Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to cooperate on anything these days. The two companies seem ready to spar over anything and everything, from online privacy, to which web video format is best, to allegations over copying search results. It’s hard to believe anything could make the two companies cooperate, but an aggressive “patent troll” called GeoTag, which has sued more than 300 companies for basic uses of Bing Maps and Google Maps, has caused the two arch-rivals to join forces.
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The future of content navigation
Let's forget business models and monetization — just for a brief moment. Instead, we'll focus on one key issue: the interface, the way you access, browse, spot, save relevant information. The interface is pivotal. A good one will allow you to rope in your readers / viewers, and make them loyal to your brand, your contents.
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