The Bing Maps (formally Virtual Earth) Platform

The Microsoft Bing Maps platform is an integrated set of services that provides quality geospatial data, rich imagery, cutting-edge technology, and dependable performance that helps organizations visualize data and provide immersive end-user experiences. Backed by a commitment to ongoing investments in innovation, driven by customer feedback, the Bing Maps platform continues to offer new map detail and precision imagery, feature enhancements, and robust platform capabilities.

Bring Location Information to Life

Bing Maps empowers organizations like yours with a new way to see your world and achieve your goals.

Innovate Online with Maps
Create engaging applications for your customers and develop powerful ways to visualize business information by combining online maps with your integrated data.

Connect with Customers
Add to your growing customer base with services that can help you increase site traffic, build community, and strengthen customer relationships. Use Bing Maps maps to display and share location-based information.

Visualise Your Business
Integrate data from nearly any source into Bing Maps maps to gain deep visual insight into your business and build business solutions.

Find Success Here

Bing Maps offers innovative solutions  within nearly every industry. Read more about how customers in industries including Real Estate, Retail, Public Sector, Hospitality & Travel, and Oil & Gas are successfully meeting their business goals with mapping solutions. Explore a solution for your industry.

See how leading brands and organizations are using Bing Maps to innovate, grow, connect with customers, and increase their business insight. Visit the Virtual Earth Gallery to see Virtual Earth solutions in action.

Bing Maps (formallly Virtual Earth) Features and Functionality

The Bing Maps platform delivers an immersive experience in which end- users can easily discover, search, and visualize business location data and locally relevant information.

Immersive Imagery
Bing Maps is an industry leader in providing precise views of the world through bird's eye[1] view and panning, and photorealistic and geospecific 3D capability, among other features.

Location Functionality
Bing Maps provides organizations with a host of features that deliver directions—in more languages—to get users where they're going faster. With enhanced tools that provide greater flexibility and control over the development of location solutions, organizations can update and enhance their online experience to help them remain competitive and provide satisfying end-user experiences.

Business-Ready Platform
Backed by a competitive service-level agreement (SLA), comprehensive support, and flexible licensing, businesses can be confident that Bing Maps is professional and enterprise-ready, from features to support.

* Source: Microsoft Corporation


Further Information

Click on one of the links below for further information or contact us.

Virtual Earth/MDS Press Release (.pdf)
Case Study: Manufacturing Industry - BP (.pdf)
Case Study: Customer Solution - John L Scott Real Estate (.pdf)


 

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