Bing Maps powered by the Bing Maps for Enterprise framework (earlier Live Search Maps, Windows Live Maps and Windows Live Local) is a web mapping service provided as a part of Microsoft’s Bing suite of search engines. Here you can see information regarding the Microsoft Bing Map directions given at its official site. Bing maps, formerly called as Microsoft Virtual Earth will help you to make powerful applications to evaluate and visualize your location data.
Bing.com Maps Beta Driving Directions Features:
Geo-coding:
- Reverse Geo coding support to find an address based only on latitude and longitude co-ordinates
- Get relevant, accurate results when looking for locations. Bing Maps uses multiple geo coders, data sets and Reverse IP to find the correct location
- Support for international geo-coding to find international addresses with increased precision
Search:
- Highlight locations using push pins on the shape layer
- Find the location you are looking for even when using alternative or similar spellings
- Search the surrounding area of a location for points of interest
- Improved parsing capabilities find areas in international countries more easily
Imagery:
- 3D Maps – 3D models of buildings for over 250 cities help to enhance map detail and realism
- Maps for Mobile – Bing Maps include new maps that are supported on Windows Mobile, Blackberry and the iPhone
- Bird’s Eye View – It 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
- Customizable tile layers with support for pre-fetching to increase panning performance
Directions:
- Get localized maps and driving/walking directions in 15 languages
- One click directions to any location without requiring a starting address. Get directions based on shortest time, shortest distance or traffic flow.
Other Features:
- Import other 3D models to be displayed using Bing Maps 3D view
- Mini-map view helps to give a zoomed out overview of your location
- Completely customizable map navigation controls
- Info box shapes can display HTML and CSS content to create a fully customizable look
- Create custom points of interest and custom pushpin libraries
- Supports KML and Geo-RSS formats – easily import shapes, pushpins and polylines
- Fully customizable shapes – modify pushpins, polylines and polygons line colors, widths, transparency and group shapes together
Bing.com Maps Beta Driving Directions:
Draggable Routes: This feature is much requested and great that allow you to make a route. If you need to change the direction, simply grab the any part and drag at where you want to actually go. Go on this site, click on direction link and to generate a route enter your desired start and end. Now grab anywhere on the route to go at the route line. Here see the different button which will help you to search driving direction such as
- Zoom Bar
- Command Parsing
- Embed a Map
- Dynamic Compute
- New Navigation
- World Wrap
- Diet Bing Maps
For more information, see here.
Source:
- http://bingmaps.com.au/index.aspx
- http://www.greymatter.com/mcm/Microsoft-Bing-Maps
