Using Virtual Earth, Bank of America customers can search for ATM or banking center locations offering the services they prefer, at a time that fits their schedule.

Barclays enables searching for branches offering services to personal, business, and commercial customers, as well as those that offer financial planning services.

On the American Family Insurance site, visitors can find nearby agents and get driving directions, displayed on a Virtual Earth map.

VISA is connecting customers with services more effectively, using Virtual Earth ATM and branch locator.

Through Virtual Earth pushpin mapping, Chase customizes connections to its branches, showing customers details like driving directions by zip code, and days and hours of operation.

Wells Fargo uses Virtual Earth to direct customers to their nearest branch, with additional details about the services offered there – including which branches sell stamps.

Using Virtual Earth, the City of Anaheim created an internal site to display city assets, resources, and live incidents to improve response time.

Using Virtual Earth, Wackenhut provides verification to clients that security officers are remaining within predefined boundaries and patrolling properties as required.

Virtual Earth helped Bombardier, a global train and transportation company, gain valuable business insight and more efficiently manage its fleets and services.

With a fleet-tracking solution based on Virtual Earth, United Biscuits employees can locate and direct their vehicles efficiently in real time, reducing operating expenses and carbon emissions.

J.B. Hunt integrated Virtual Earth with internal data, so road-service operators can sort auto-generated vendor lists and quickly recommend reliable repair facilities to drivers.

Expedia lets customers find a specific hotel on a Virtual Earth map, which also lists nearby amenities like water features, spas, or other points of interest.

Marriott created a search filter with Virtual Earth, so customers can narrow down hotel choices in an area by selecting the hotel features they care about.

Visitors to this tourism site can explore vivid imagery of the area and attractions on a Virtual Earth map. Synths enhance details and views.

Mr & Mrs Smith Boutique Hotels and Saab created a route planner of the U.K.'s best road trips, featuring top hotels, restaurants, and bars along the way.

Using Virtual Earth, Hotel.de customers can see a range of realistic location information before making a decision about the perfect place to stay.

Using Virtual Earth, Choice Hotels allows customers to choose the best hotel value in their destination city, based on surrounding area attractions that interest them.

Customers can find the Toyota dealer closest to them, get driving directions, and determine which services and features the dealer offers, with the Virtual Earth application.

Sealy uses Virtual Earth to show customers which retailers, by zip code or city, sell the mattress type they want – before they head to the store.

By using Virtual Earth, InSinkErator makes insightful, real-time business decisions for its 130 international locations in hours instead of weeks, saving the company time and money.

Loopt, a social networking service for mobile phones, uses pushpins on a Virtual Earth map to display user locations.

NBC Chicago, an association of Chicago-area NBC affiliates, uses Virtual Earth to provide real-time traffic data, including incidents marked by pushpins.

The British Broadcasting Corporation published an interactive Olympic map, powered by Virtual Earth. Users could browse for events and locations using icons.

On Italian publisher Leditore’s online version of its monthly motorcycle magazine, EuroMoto, motorcyclists can review tour routes and maps created by other enthusiasts, using Virtual Earth technology.

SportsDo, a GPS sports tracking system for mobile phones, uses Virtual Earth to help customers map their routes and attach real-time, site-specific images and performance information.

After Hurricane Katrina, BP developed a hurricane management system that combines Virtual Earth 3D imagery, maps, and weather data to help managers visualize assets.

The utility company that powers New York City informs customers about outage locations and information using a Virtual Earth map on its Storm Central site.

Customers of this Canadian electricity provider can view power outage location and information, including number of customers affected and cause, on a Virtual Earth map.

Utility customers in the D.C. area can visit Pepco’s online StormCenter, featuring a Virtual Earth map, and view outage locations and customers affected.

Powering parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, the energy company Entergy uses Virtual Earth in applications like its storm center and outage maps features.

Using Virtual Earth, Shell customers can pinpoint the most conveniently located stations and truck stops along a planned route – and even search by specific service offerings.

The Seattle Department of Transportation uses Virtual Earth on its Travelers Information Web site, which provides users with near real time data on traffic conditions for major streets and highways in Seattle.

The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health uses Virtual Earth to help service providers and those in need to search for services and facilities nearest them.

The state of Virginia transportation agency used Virtual Earth to build a Web site that features point-to-point routing, allowing users to select from different routing options, to zoom in on locations, and to learn road and weather conditions and more.

The Kansas agency chose Virtual Earth to replace legacy maps with a browser-friendly solution, which also now shows highly detailed maps of many remote, rural areas, as well as traffic incidents, snow and ice conditions, and more.

Houston TranStar, a consortium of four government agencies, uses Virtual Earth to display its near real-time traffic map, which overlays data about average speed, traffic incidents, road closures, cameras, and message signs.

The Ohio Department of Transportation’s site provides information from such sources as pavement sensors, monitoring stations, traffic cameras, and data input by ODOT personnel. The site’s clean interface helps drivers plan trips more easily.

The City of Seattle uses Virtual Earth to show neighborhood residents dozens of types of nearby amenities, including public art, libraries, farmers’ markets—even protected Heritage Trees.

The International Telecommunication Union, an agency of the United Nations, uses Virtual Earth to track deployment of telecommunications projects across Africa.

The European Environment Agency used Virtual Earth to create Eye on Earth, an interactive Web feature that displays scientific data, along with the comments of ordinary citizens.

The United States Air Force uses the Virtual Earth mapping technology to easily map recruiting offices. Users can query by location as well as type of Air Force position.

The City of Miami chose Microsoft Virtual Earth mapping software to develop applications that provide enhanced public safety response, planning, and tourism services.

Using the Trip Planner's Virtual Earth interface, customers can search and explore points of interest and get precise routing directions before heading out the door.

California residents can compare schools side by side with school rankings and course offerings by searching for zip code, address, or school name.

The Environmental Protection Agency has a consumer-friendly resource thanks to Virtual Earth. Users can access environmental data associated with sites across the country.

The eCityGov Alliance, a Washington State agency, used Virtual Earth to build an application allowing users to search, locate, and learn about regional parks and recreational resources.

Coldwell Banker Commercial is using the dynamic bird's eye view and three-dimensional viewing options of Virtual Earth, along with superior aerial images.

The association used Microsoft Virtual Earth mapping technology to integrate mapping functions with the property search application on HAR.com, creating an engaging search experience.

RE/MAX Ontario integrated Microsoft Virtual Earth to make finding properties by type, price, and location easy and more efficient.

John L. Scott uses Virtual Earth aerial views and mapping technology to create a high-definition home search that yields a high volume of site visits.

Cyberhomes.com delivers an unprecedented user experience with the help of rich imagery and data layering capabilities from Virtual Earth.

Coldwell Banker boosted its home search map feature use by 300 percent with its innovative approach to mapping, including immersive views showing the surrounding amenities.

Industrial real-estate developer CenterPoint used Virtual Earth to plot properties on a map and overlay the images with data, allowing quick property assessment and increased productivity.

LoopNet is an online commercial real estate marketplace. After choosing the Virtual Earth platform, the company reported a 33-percent increase in the number of properties viewed daily.

The popular U.K. real estate site Rightmove launched AboutMyPlace, which pops up in property searches to give house-hunters local area information using the Virtual Earth mapping platform.

Sperry Van Ness, a fast-growing U.S. commercial real estate firm, uses Virtual Earth in its online tracking system so that agents can search for properties more efficiently.

Starbucks uses Virtual Earth to offer three services: store maps, searches based on events, and the ability to send an invitation for a meeting at a store.

FedEx delivers richer online customer experiences, thanks to integrated mapping and location data with Virtual Earth.

The Body Shop International uses Virtual Earth for its global store locator, which embeds an engaging Body Shop video into its search results for each store.

Nordstrom integrated Virtual Earth into its Web site to deliver a rich experience, providing store locations, hours, in-store events, and driving directions.

U-Haul empowers its customers to find locations with Virtual Earth, and search for the products and services they need, such as trucks, hitches, and propane.

The Harley-Davidson Ride Planner uses Virtual Earth to showcase dealerships and hotels, and to bring customers together around great American motorcycle journeys.