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Population affected by Sandy visualized in Bing Maps
Check it out on http://hurricanesandy.censusviewer.com/client
Bing Maps Preview ‘geotager’ ?
Bing Venue Maps Goes International Adding Thousands of Shopping Malls
Bing Venue Maps Goes International Adding Thousands of Shopping Malls: bing.com/community/site…—
Chris Pendleton (@ChrisPendleton) June 28, 2012
Whether you live in Poland or Spain, Russia or Belgium, or pretty much anywhere in-between, you will now be able to explore your local shopping mall through Bing maps – helping you locate the stores you are looking for, find the closest services and facilities like restrooms and cash machines, and even browse their directories.
Try it yourself on:
Read more about this update on: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2012/06/28/venue-maps-goes-international-adding-thousands-of-shopping-malls.aspx
SAPER – Sensor Amplified Perception for Explosives Recognition
SAPER is a mobile solution which identifies hidden improvised explosive devices and landmines utilizing magnetic field distortion. SAPER transforms Smartphone into a personal portable dangerous explosives detector and a ground scanner which can be successfully adopted in real life scenarios by civilians.
Bing Maps now using Nokia Backend services for Traffic and Geocoding
Hi, Europeans! open up your WP7 Bing Maps and hit the "traffic" button. We enabled it last night with Nokia data. @ bing.com/community/site…—
Justin Angel (@JustinAngel) May 25, 2012
Last year, Microsoft announced a strategic partnership with Nokia in Mapping. Our two companies have spent a lot of time working together, sharing information and investigating better ways provide relevant mapping information to help you find and get to where you’re going more quickly. Today, we’re excited to announce another important phase in that partnership with the launch of Nokia powered traffic results, which are rolling out today in 24 countries on Bing Maps.
The following countries will see improvements through Bing Maps as a result of our use of Nokia services:· Austria
· Belgium
· Brazil
· Canada
· Finland
· France
· Germany
· Greece
· India
· Indonesia
· Ireland
· Italy
· Luxembourg
· Mexico
· Netherlands
· Poland
· Portugal
· Russia
· Saudi Arabia
· South Africa
· Spain
· Sweden
· Switzerland
· UAE
· United Kingdom
· US
Works good on the Windows Phone and also on Bing Maps itself!
Find out more here: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2012/05/24/bing-maps-now-using-nokia-backend-services-for-traffic-and-geocoding.aspx
8-bit Google Maps
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