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Product Information

Bing Maps (formerly Microsoft Virtual Earth) can help create powerful applications that can visualise and analyse your location data. Select from a variety of mapping imagery including Bird's Eye View, Aerial and 3D imagery and overlay shapes, walking directions, driving directions and more. Bing Maps comes with comprehensive Geocoding and reverse Geocoding support, localised maps and directions and is backed by a powerful Web Services model and enterprise-level support.

Microsoft Gold Partner Grey Matter has launched a scheme to assist Bing Maps for Enterprise partners and resellers with their licensing requirements. Jennifer Forsythe, Partner Manager EMEA for the Bing Maps team said 'Grey Matter’s investment in the training and systems required to license our mapping products correctly will allow our ISV’s and developers to profit from their Bing Maps sales, but focus on what they do best: building the next generation of mapping applications and inspiring our customers to adopt and realise the amazing business benefits that we are now able to deliver'.

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Features

Geocoding

• Get relevant, accurate results when looking for locations. Bing Maps uses multiple geocoders, data sets and Reverse IP to find the correct location
• Reverse Geocoding support to find an address based only on latitude and longitude co-ordinates
• Support for international geocoding to find international addresses with increased precision

Directions

• One click directions to any location without requiring a starting address. Get directions based on shortest time, shortest distance or traffic flow.
• Get localised maps and driving/walking directions in 15 languages

Search

• Find the location you're looking for even when using alternative or similar spellings
• Search the surrounding area of a location for points of interest
• Highlight locations using push pins on the shape layer
• Improved parsing capabilities find areas in international countries more easily

Imagery

• Bird's Eye View - provides an aerial view at 45 degrees for many cities, and supports overlaid map data (available for many cities - not available for government customers)
• Aerial Views - Detailed aerial photography with the option of having map data overlaid
• 3D Maps - 3D models of buildings for over 250 cities help enhance map detail and realism
• Maps for Mobile - Bing Maps includes new maps that are supported on Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and the iPhone
• Customisable tile layers with support for pre-fetching to increase panning performance

Other Features

• Supports KML and GeoRSS formats - easily import shapes, pushpins and polylines
• Fully customisable shapes - modify pushpins, polylines and polygons line colours, widths, transparency and group shapes together
• Info box shapes can display HTML and CSS content to create a fully customisable look
• Import other 3D models to be displayed using Bing Maps 3D view
• Mini-map view helps give a zoomed out overview of your location
• Completely customisable map navigation controls
• Create custom points of interest and custom pushpin libraries

Licensing

There are various ways to license Bing Maps - please see our ‘Microsoft Licensing’ buyers guide on the left or click Call Me above and we will contact you to discuss the options.