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Come to the dark side, Google Event ;-)

There is a Google GEO event on Sept 13th for those of you in or around London. It hopefully will be a great oportunity to see what the other side of the fence looks like and to meet a wider ground of like minded geo geeks. Register now before its fully booked:

 

https://sites.google.com/a/googleroadshow.com/emea-geospatial-summit-2011/

Added by Brian Norman on August 9, 2011 at 11:02 — No Comments

MapPoint - Bing maps Interactive Viewer + Availability Detector - New release

BING maps Interactive Viewer + Availibilty Detector:

See: 115 pages of - documentation - with hundreds of tutorials and screenshots.

There is a free - download (40MB) - for Bing Maps User Group members.

 

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Added by Manfred Suendorf on June 10, 2011 at 10:14 — No Comments

Sage 200 Labs publishes first lab project

The Sage 200 ERP team (a department within the Sage UK MMD) publishes its first Sage 200 labs projects...a custom content part that enables a Sage 200 user to plot a route using Bing Maps and Bing Map Services from within their Sage 200 desktop application.

Full details of the post project can be found here

Added by Richard Custance on January 19, 2011 at 14:25 — No Comments

UK map Bird´s Eye availability

We programmed a software-scanner to detect where Bird´s eye view is available.

We scanned total Europe and North America with an accuray of 250 m (~ 275 yards).

If you are interested, visit: http://mappoint2010.info/html/europe.html

UK Bing Maps User Group Members will get the UK map for free.

If you are interested, send an email to…

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Added by Manfred Suendorf on August 16, 2010 at 22:28 — No Comments

Code Bing Maps to Win an MSDN Subscription!

The 2010 Community Coding Contest is now accepting entries until Sept. 1, 2010. The project that wins 1st place will win Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN Subscription, plus a few other prizes. There are also prizes from Telerik, ComponentOne and InnerWorkings The contest currently has over $18,000 USD worth of prizes to give away to 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th place winners.



Are you coding something cool? Is it open source? Then submit it to the 2010 Community Coding… Continue

Added by Chris Pietschmann on July 6, 2010 at 13:30 — 3 Comments

2nd Bing Maps User Group

What happened to the Photosynth!? Thanks for an interesting evening, looking forward to the next one.

Added by Gary Templar on June 21, 2010 at 23:39 — 1 Comment

Latest Community Updates

Now we have the next event announced, planning is well under way to make it even better than our first one. One of the best ways of making the event the best it can be is by interacting with each other before the event using this site. We are trialling a few ideas for future events on line to see how interest you are as a community so I thought I'd introduce a few of them in this blog post:…


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Added by Brian Norman on February 10, 2010 at 18:50 — No Comments

Q5. Which of the following browsers are officially supported by the AJAX map control?

a. Internet Explorer 8 (PC)

b. Firefox 3 (PC)

c. Safari 3 (Mac)

d. Google Chrome (PC)



As stated in my blog post, I'm going to be reprinting the quiz questions handed out at the last UG meeting one at a time, followed by the answers. If you want to play along at home, then we'll make it a "fastest finger" round and the first person to post a comment to this question with the correct… Continue

Added by Alastair Aitchison on January 19, 2010 at 13:00 — No Comments

Q4. As of November 2009, what percentage of internet browsers could view Microsoft Silverlight content?

a. 25%

b. 33%

c. 45%

d. 60%



As stated in my blog post, I'm going to be reprinting the quiz questions handed out at the last UG meeting one at a time, followed by the answers. If you want to play along at home, then we'll make it a "fastest finger" round and the first person to post a comment to this question with the correct answer will score 1pt. We'll have a prize at the next UG… Continue

Added by Alastair Aitchison on January 18, 2010 at 13:00 — No Comments

Q3. What is the name of the Bing Maps feature that lets you view 360 degree panoramic, ground-level photography?

a. Streetview

b. Streetside

c. Photosynth

d. Sidestreet



As stated in my blog post, I'm going to be reprinting the quiz questions handed out at the last UG meeting one at a time, followed by the answers. If you want to play along at home, then we'll make it a "fastest finger" round and the first person to post a comment to this question with the correct answer will score 1pt. We'll… Continue

Added by Alastair Aitchison on January 17, 2010 at 13:00 — 2 Comments

Q2. Which of the following components form part of the Bing Maps platform?

a. AJAX Map Control

b. Silverlight Map Control

c. Mappoint

d. Mappoint Web Services

e. Bing Maps Web Services

f. Photosynth



As stated in my blog post, I'm going to be reprinting the quiz questions handed out at the last UG meeting one at a time, followed by the answers. If you want to play along at home, then we'll make it a "fastest finger" round and the first person to… Continue

Added by Alastair Aitchison on January 16, 2010 at 13:00 — 2 Comments

Q1. What was the Bing Maps platform previously known as?

a. Microsoft Earth

b. Microsoft Maps

c. Live Maps

d. Virtual Earth



As stated in my blog post, I'm going to be reprinting the quiz questions handed out at the last UG meeting one at a time, followed by the answers. If you want to play along at home, then we'll make it a "fastest finger" round and the first person to post a comment to this question with the correct answer will score… Continue

Added by Alastair Aitchison on January 15, 2010 at 12:50 — No Comments

Feedback, Questions, and Quiz Answers

While sitting on the train on my way back from the meeting on Wednesday night, I was able to go through all the feedback forms that had been handed in. Thankyou to everyone who completed them - as Brian said, this is a user group, and we want to make sure that we are running it in the best way to be helpful to the community, so telling us what you liked (and didn't like) is really helpful.

We've got lots of exciting ideas for the next meeting already, and details will appear on this site… Continue

Added by Alastair Aitchison on January 15, 2010 at 12:28 — No Comments

MS Event 21/1/2010: Spatial databases and analysis techniques with SQL Server 2008

As mentioned in my session last night, Johannes Kebeck will be hosting a full day free session covering SQL Server 2008 + Bing Maps at the Microsoft Reading campus on 21st January.
If you're interested, please sign up here:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032437191&Culture=en-GB

Added by Alastair Aitchison on January 14, 2010 at 10:21 — No Comments

Thanks for making a brilliant first event

Thank you everyone for making last night's first event either in person or online. It was great to see so many people battle through the weather to make it there and I hope you all enjoyed the event as much as I did. Many thanks to Jim and Alastair for ensuring I didn't have to present at the first event ;-)



We will be working on publishing various content from the event over the next week or so including video, powerpoints and maybe some code samples. We will also be sending out… Continue

Added by Brian Norman on January 14, 2010 at 9:24 — 1 Comment

Can't make the first event? Join in live online!

If you cannot make the event in person on Wednesday 13th January, we will be hosting a Office Live Meeting for the event allowing you to view the sessions remotely and get involved in the questions and discussion.



You will need to register for the event in advance using the following link… Continue

Added by Brian Norman on January 5, 2010 at 19:08 — 2 Comments

First competition winner!

Ok so our first competition "silly profile picture" finished on Christmas day, we still pretty much only had a few runners Ricky, Alastair and Richard.



As two of them are founders of the UG I thought it… Continue

Added by Brian Norman on December 29, 2009 at 9:47 — 1 Comment

Our first competition!

To encourage everyone to add their own profile photo our first competition is the funniest / weirdest photo added to a members profile (other than myself) before 25th December will win themselves a Bing present for the tree. So far we Ricky and Richard in the running so see what you can come up with to beat… Continue

Added by Brian Norman on December 5, 2009 at 13:47 — No Comments

Integrating SQL Server 2008 and Bing Maps

Just to add to the lineup for the first meeting, I'll be doing some demos of some of the different ways to integrate Bing Maps + SQL Server 2008. In this session I'll be covering, amongst other things:

  • Different methods to retrieve and display SQL Server spatial data on Bing Maps - shape layers (GeoRSS, KML) and dynamic tile layers, and discussing the relative advantages of each method.
  • How to insert geography and geometry data into SQL Server from Bing Maps…
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Added by Alastair Aitchison on November 29, 2009 at 21:00 — 2 Comments

Now plenty to talk about at our first meeting, thanks to the Bing Maps dev team

Unless you have not been near twitter, rss or a pc for the last 48 hours you now know we have plenty of new Bing Bling to talk about at the first meeting of our user group. Just in case you have missed it Bing Maps has had:



  • A new ajax control release 6.2
  • The first official release of the Silverlight control
  • Some amazing new licensing options making Bing maps FREE for lots of people
  • A new release of the main Bing mapping site


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Added by Brian Norman on November 11, 2009 at 16:15 — No Comments

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