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Microsoft Geonews: Imagery Update, SharePoint, Windows 7 and 3D Weather
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With almost a thousand geonews items to catchup, here's a first round this time regarding Microsoft-related geonews.
First there was an October 2009 Bing Maps imagery update (announced last week in November): "We just shipped another 9,460 square kilometers of imagery onto Bing Maps. This month’s release showcases high precision imagery for the USA, Canada and the United Kingdom."
Sharepoint being present in a lot of organizations, here's a post on visualizing SharePoint data with Bing Maps (see also this previous story).
Another entry focuses on Windows 7 and Bing Maps: "[...] Virtual Earth (now named Bing Maps) is onboard the multi-touch PCs natively as the Microsoft Surface Globe application. "
Finally, there's an entry named Microsoft Looking at Integrating Videos With Driving Directions and another one on 3D weather with Bing Maps from The Weather Network in Canada.
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Microsoft Introduces GeoLife 2.0 and VE/SharePoint Integration
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I have a lot of geonews catching up to do and I have two busy weeks ahead of me - but I'll try to publish the most pertinent geonews, as usual. You can always share your findings with our thousands of readers.
Microsoft announced GeoLife: "What is GeoLife? GeoLife is a GPS-data-driven social network on Microsoft Virtual Earth. It is not only a Website where individuals can manage, visualize, and understand their life experience using their own GPS trajectories; it’s also a social networking service that enables people to build connections with each other based on location histories." Sounds similar in a few ways to Google Latitude.
In another Microsoft-related news, there's a blog entry named Virtual Earth + SharePoint = Business (Location) Intelligence: "ComponentOne recently launched their Virtual Earth web part. The web part brings Virtual Earth maps to SharePoint with their on-board designer – a web form letting users set map styles, lat/lons, and zoom level. Also, this designer lets users select their data source from SharePoint Lists or SQL Server."
Bing Maps Gets An Overhaul And New Features
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The Bing Maps blog has news on a monster update to Bing Maps. Just in time to take advantage of the recent Google Maps blunders. Along with a new look, there are some major new features which you might want to check out. I'll glance over them here, but check out the blog to get the full rundown. Draggable Routes, Zoom Bar, Command Parsing, Embed a Map, Dynamic Compute, New Navigation, World Wrap and a smaller download size.
Microsoft Geonews: Imagery Update, SharePoint, Windows 7 and 3D Weather
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That's not 3D Weather
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