The Bing Maps Platform brings location data to life by making it easier to visualize, understand, and analyze. The rich imagery, quality geospatial data, and leading-edge technology of Bing Maps is already being used by thousands of organizations, governments, and developers worldwide. Choose from a robust set of APIs to build innovative applications that allow you to better display data, excite end users, and improve business insight.

 

Key features of the Bing Maps Platform include:

 

• Vivid, photorealistic images with stunning features such as 3D and bird’s eye views that present data in context while simplifying orientation and navigation.
• The ability to easily overlay standard or custom data points and layers with different themes.
• Detailed, building-level geocoding for more than 70 million addresses in the United States alone.
• Developer support options available, including forums, trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide.
• Robust set of APIs, including Silverlight, available for developers to build innovative applications

 

The Ideal Solution for All Kinds of Sites

 

The flexibility of Bing Maps is what makes it so powerful. So no matter what kind of site or application your organization uses, Bing Maps can easily be customized to include all types of location-based data.

 

On public-facing sites:

 

• Display business locations with hours, amenities, and available inventory by location.
• Overlay traffic and GIS data in near-real time so users can plan accordingly.
• Keep affected individuals informed about outages or service interruptions by area or region.
• Give users the ability to track shipments and view delivery progress.

 

On internal-facing sites:

 

• Overlay internal and external data to improve business insight. For example, view sales data with customer demographic information to assess regional sales potential.
• Easily integrate with other software technologies to promote collaboration when analyzing spatial data—thus yielding better results.
• Place different information and GIS data on multiple layers that can be toggled on and off to develop strategies, analyze relationships, and make key business decisions.
• Add GPS data to track mobile assets—including personnel and vehicles.
• Incorporate key weather and traffic information to streamline fleet management.

 

 

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