Subject: ‘Microsoft’
June 7, 2011GIS News: Bentley Keynote Report, Topcon Wins “Cool Vendor in Energy and Utilities” awardGIS NewsToday’s geospatial industry news includes the “Cool Vendor in Energy and Utilities” award for Topcon, the release of the Bentley User Conference Keynote Report, and contract awards for Nvision, Timmons Group, and SuperGeo. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) will be holding its next OGC Technical Committee and Planning Committee meetings from 12-17 June 2011 in Taichung, Taiwan. This is ... read more November 10, 2010 How Taxi Drivers Are Helping to Create More Efficient Driving DirectionsWeb MappingMicrosoft is using the collective wisdom of taxi drivers to improve its online map directions. The study used GPS data that tracked over 33,000 cab drivers in Beijing over a three month period to learn the subtleties of navigating through a major city to get around driving headaches such as congested roadways and traffic signals. ... read more March 10, 2010 GeoBriefs: Google Maps adds biking directions, new ArcGIS Explorer released, Aerial update for Bing MapsGIS NewsThe Official Google Blog announced the addition of biking directions to Google Maps. Shannon Guyman, Product Manager at Google explains why it took until now to add biking directions, “we wanted to include as much bike trail data as possible, provide efficient routes, allow riders to customize their trip, make use of bike lanes, calculate ... read more November 10, 2009Bing Maps UpdateWeb MappingMicrosoft’s Bing Maps has a host of new features in their latest update. New functions include draggable routes, command parsing for functions such as driving directions and traffic information, the ability to embed maps into personal web sites and better web site navigation features. The Bing home page was also streamlined so it will load ... read more November 9, 2009 Online Mapping SuedWeb MappingWhat do Expedia, Google, Microsoft, the Washington Post, Ticketmaster, Travelocity, Tripadvisor, Yahoo, Yellow Pages, Yelp, and Zagat Survey have in common? They are all being sued by Webmap Technologies LLC for infringement of patent 6,772,142 called Method and Apparatus for Collecting and Expressing Geographically Referenced Data. Read more: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo others sued over mapping ... read more June 29, 2008Google’s Street View Car AdventuresFunApparently one of Google’s Street View car drivers decided that an up close and personal tour of Microsoft’s Campus was in order. According to Gizmodo (the site refers to it as the GooCar): The GooCar…wasn’t just covering regular roads, they were going in-between buildings and getting as many angles as they could of the campus….the ... read more |
