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The map created by Open Street Map, a project building a free, open-source, editable map of the world, is now available as a layer in Bing Maps. Users who download the OpenStreetMap app (and ...
You can now turn on a special layer in Bing Maps that displays maps from OpenStreetMap, Microsoft has announced. OpenStreetMap is an open source mapping project that keeps an editable map of the ...
Microsoft is to closely cooperate with the OpenStreetMap project, whose founder it has hired.The initiative, announced on Tuesday, is starting with Microsoft's release of aerial Bing Maps imagery ...
One of the best part of Bing Maps is the gallery of Map Apps (Silverlight required) which add different informational overlays to the maps. There are Twitter maps, Foursquare maps, Worldwide ...
Bing Maps is on a bit of a mini tear this week with new announcements – and it’s only Tuesday. First, yesterday morning Bing Maps announced the its eight finalists in its “King of Bing Maps ...
Taking on one of Google's most popular Web applications, Microsoft introduced a beta for Bing Maps that incorporates improved imagery, 3-D photographs and street views using tools made possible by ...
Good news for developers and fans of mashups, as this morning Microsoft has announced the availability of a software development kit (SDK) for building map apps on Bing Maps. What's more, last ...
Microsoft announced that it has hired CloudeMade and OpenStreetMap (OSM) founder Steve Coast as “Principal Architect for Bing Mobile,” as well as a kind of liason to the “open map community ...
Microsoft is saying "Bing It On" to app developers, announcing at Build 2013 that it has opened up the search engine tools of Bing as a platform. This means that third-party apps you download will ...
Here at Where 2.0, Blaise Aguera y Arcas of Microsoft (at right) – and the lead developer on Bing Maps – showed off Bing Maps’ Foursquare integration. While still in the a limited release ...
You can now turn on a special layer in Bing Maps that displays maps from OpenStreetMap, Microsoft has announced. OpenStreetMap is an open source mapping project that keeps an editable map of the ...