Light Up the Web
Create a leading edge web experience that lets visitors dive in and explore for themselves. The integrated imagery and seamless navigation of the Silverlight® Map Control, the up-close and personal views from Streetside™, the customizable experience to match your brand, and more, can help light up your web experiences and excite customers.
Give a spatial context to any information by integrating data into a web-based mapping experience, and engage customers in new way.
- Help customers find and navigate your retail locations with interactive store locators.
- Provide more information on your Web site such as inventory by store, location-based promotions, parking and traffic info, and local events.
- Share webcam footage or other multimedia experiences on a map and provide up to the minute information. Let users share stories by location with user-generated content on a map—trip recommendations, product feedback, photos, and more.
- Decrease calls and free up resources by making critical location information discoverable on your Web site.
- Let customers tour stores, hotels, and properties with 360 degree photo tours from Photosynth.
The Virtual Twilight Tour uses Bing Maps and Silverlight® to take fans on a Twilight video tour to see all the locations from the Twilight Series using location-based navigation and video feed overlays.
Build powerful solutions with Microsoft:
With Bing Maps as the visualization layer—and a suite of other Microsoft products to create interactive user experiences, provide an e-commerce platform, an integrated development environment, a cloud computing platform, and more—Microsoft offers the software and services to help you build powerful business intelligence solutions. Bing Maps works well with Microsoft Commerce Server, Visual Studio®, Silverlight®, Windows Azure™ and many other products to create innovative solutions.
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