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National Geographic is publishing 120 years worth of their magazines onto a 6 DVD set (or external hard drive) for amazing discoveries, fascinating [Bing] Maps, and the world's best photography with The Complete National Geographic. This definitive collection of every issue of National Geographic magazine, digitally reproduced in stunning high resolution, brings you the world and all that is in it. Use the advanced interface to explore a topic, search for photographs, browse the globe, or wander on your own expedition.
Check out the video on their web site. Bing Maps is featured at ~1:20. NatGeo uses Bing Maps in their Geobrowse functionality which allows you to browse a map anywhere in the world to find locations where relevant articles are referenced using geographic metadata. Specifically, the DVD collection features an intuitive and user-friendly navigation that permits users to search by keyword, date, contributor and topic, and to browse all articles, illustrations, photographs and advertisements; a new Geobrowse function powered by Bing Maps that allows users with Internet access to search nearly 5,000 locations on a globe that are featured in the magazine's archive of articles and maps. So, you can just search for a place such as Germany <shameless plug>where I’ll be for Tech Ed Eu
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Very last minute, I know but it seriously just crept up on me! Register for the free web cast about the Virtual Earth Web Server and how Microsoft Partners like IDV Solutions are creating offline solutions for secure networks that need geographic data visualization using a plethora of content available from the Bing Maps platform. The web cast is tomorrow (!!!) Thursday, October 29, 2009 from 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT. So, if you’ve had some meetings clear from your afternoon tomorrow here’s something to occupy your time.
Here’s the session brief: Learn how secure networks and mission critical apps can operate as on-premise solutions when the Internet is not an option.
Join Microsoft, IDV Solutions and Directions Media for this informational tutorial to gain insights, best practices and "how to's" for developing Web-based, offline location intelligent applications. Attendees will learn how secure networks and mission critical apps can operate as on-premise solutions when the Internet is not an option. The combination of Bing Maps, the Virtual Earth Server and IDV
Picture the Impossible is a community-based game developed jointly by the Lab for Social Computing at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. The game engages members of the community in exploration of the City of Rochester, and encourages both creativity and charitable giving in the community. Players participate in a range of activities, including casual web-based games, games that bring players out to events and locations throughout the city, and games that involve the tangible aspects of the Democrat & Chronicle newspaper itself.
How do you play? You’ll need to locate notable places in Rochester, then click on the map to identify where they are. The closer you are to the actual point, the more points you get. If you don’t know where the point is just hurry up and guess since time places into the game as well. There are 7 weeks worth of maps for you to choose from, so once you get playing you have a few to choose from. In the week one map there are 11 locations in the game. You’ll get 15 seconds to click somewhere on the map to identify where the respective landmark is in Rochester.
Some impressive UI aspects to this game using Bing Maps:
- The counter expanding as it reaches the end of the countdown
- The radius drawn around the “answer” to highlight where it’s at
- The line drawn between where you clicked and where the actual landmark is
- The animation of the line and radius drawn
- Points continue to accrue across the top of the
I just booked my ticket for Berlin, Germany to attend Tech Ed Europe, 2009. We have a packed agenda for Tech Ed Europe this year, so you better get your passports out; and, I’m going to be making my first visit to Germany just for you! If you can make it to Berlin November 10 - 12, you should. We have some really great Bing Maps sessions, a demonstration booth and a contest!
The sessions include:
Bing Maps Silverlight Control, Location Intelligence and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (WIA02-IS)
Tuesday, 10th November @ 13.30 – 14.45
Interactive Theatre 2 - Orange
Enhancing the Mapping Experience with Microsoft Bing Maps (WIA306)
Thursday, 12th November @ 17.00 – 18.15
New York 3 Hall 7-1a
Both sessions will be presented by my esteemed colleague, Johannes Kebeck.
As for the contest, just make sure you’re following @BingMaps on Twitter. You’ll find out everything you need to know there.
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Today’s a big day for us Microsofties – the launch of our latest operating system, Windows 7 marks a new era in desktop computing and some exciting times for Bing Maps. As mentioned in my Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 Features Virtual Earth blog post, Virtual Earth (now named Bing Maps) is onboard the multi-touch PCs natively as the Microsoft Surface Globe application.
The Multi-touch pack comes with a whole suite of applications which you can check out here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/whats-the-microsoft-touch-pack-for-windows-7. if you want a Windows 7 Multi-touch PC with Bing Maps, here’s a list of PC manufacturers for you to choose from.
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Platform The GeoDomainMap takes your location input and finds nearby neighborhoods. Then, it takes your keywords and appends your keywords, sans white space, and creates a domain name. Also, for those of you who missed my web cast last week about Bing Maps and SharePoint, the replay is available on demand. I hope to see you at the conference…or, in Vegas baby Vegas! CP I had a bit of a crazy week last week mostly because my week revolved around being at the launch of the Digital Globe WorldView-2 satellite only to find out it had slipped two days and since I had committed to other meetings: no Vandenberg Air Force Base for me. However, my cohort who has more flexible schedules was able to attend and posted a share full of pictures from the launch. Check them out on SkyDrive. So, what’s with the rocket? Well, as reported on the Bing Blog, “It Really Is Rocket Science.” Well, sort of. The rocket was just a propulsion engine to begin the orbit of Digital Globe’s new WorldView-2 satellite which will capture imagery of the Earth and eventually be added into Bing Maps. The process is actually quite complex and now that our Bing logo is floating in the ocean evangelizing to scuba divers, let the imagery processing begin! (Perhaps we should roll out some bathometric data on Bing Maps to coordinate with the rocket in he water)? In any case, the first photo isn’t actually taken for 48 hours. The satellite will have orbited the Earth twice before they crank the lens to face the sun (to obtain a perfect white color synchronization). Then, after the first 48 The application has a ton of hot features including a base map using Bing Maps for visualizing location information. Check out the full list of navigational features: Pretty much what you would expect from a locator, but I just love looking at So, where does Bing Maps come in? The application is JAM-PACKED with demographic information! Check out the different data layers that exist on this map that you can view with just a simple mix and match of pull down menus: CP I'm hosting a web cast on October 8, 2009 @ 10AM PDT to provide an overview of how you can benefit from Bing Maps geographic data visualizations from within your SharePoint portals. Register for the web cast on the Microsoft Events site. Here's the Marketing pitch: Viewing your business data in an efficient, intuitive way is key to your organization's success. When you use Bing Maps with SharePoint, the mapping platform can be a powerful tool for visualizing content. Bing Maps incorporates rich imagery and cutting-edge technology to provide unique views of data – for use all across the enterprise. The good news is that you won't have to listen to only me for an hour. I'm bringing in some partners (IDV Solutions, SpeakTech, and Habanero Consulting) who have already created robust solutions integrating Bing Maps into SharePoint and will demonstrate their applications and talk to their experience. I hope you can make time to join. If not, the webcast will be available on-demand afterwards. CP nTerraCon just opened up shop with the launch of iGeo, their on-the-fly document geotagger. iGeo is “a new product that geo-enriches online text enabling website visitors to fly-into any location on a web page using Google Earth™ or Bing Maps™ . A free Community edition gives low-traffic website owners the power to add geo-context to their sites. nTerraCon’s Consumer Edition of iGeo™ allows larger customers, with greater traffic, to offer “on-the-fly” geo-tagging along with the embedding of text, images, audio, or video, text to create rich, immersive experiences for their users.” I like it. So, let’s dive into to this bad boy… The Bing Maps for Government blog has moved. It can now be found at its new location on the Bing Community site at http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/govmaps/default.aspx. Be sure to take advantage of the subscribe option at the top of the page to receive news feeds to your email or mobile device. This site will remain in place for the foreseeable future for your reference to past writings. See you in the Bing Community! -=Virtual Jerry http://about.soulsolutions.com.au/ First up is a little visualisation of where we work and play. This data is hard coded into the application and took less then an hour to put together. The minimap, custom navigation and custom image pin are part of the open source DeepEarth project. |
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Here at Tech Ed Australia 2009 we are presenting on the Bing Maps Silverlight control, it’s session WEB302. If you’re in the crowd or simply reading this after the event you can follow along with our demos here.
