Comments on: Bing Maps for Enterprise? http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/05/28/bing-maps-for-enterprise/ Geospatial Technology, Web Mapping and Spatial Services Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:09:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jade http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/05/28/bing-maps-for-enterprise/#comment-11556 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:39:44 +0000 http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/?p=2749#comment-11556 Bing does give search results much like Google but i would have to say that Google still gives more relevant search results.

]]> By: Sven Mogul http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/05/28/bing-maps-for-enterprise/#comment-11555 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:13:50 +0000 http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/?p=2749#comment-11555 Just got done integrating Bing with Java server talking to back-end Bing routing and geocoding services. Not too painful to generate Java SOAP bindings. Goecoding is good with rooftop, parcel, and interpolation possibilities but routing is horrid with no useable major roads option and no optimization for stops for traveling salesman problem. Unfortunately it appears ESRI still has the most sophisticated routing services, Google, on the other hand,has NO accessable back-end SOAP API, its all through Javascript front-end.

]]> By: GaGaTak http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/05/28/bing-maps-for-enterprise/#comment-11554 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:01:04 +0000 http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/?p=2749#comment-11554 No one beat Google… Google Rocks!

]]> By: No time to lose http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/05/28/bing-maps-for-enterprise/#comment-11553 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:55:00 +0000 http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/?p=2749#comment-11553 Hi Yodel,
Have you considered working towards an Open GIS instead of the Gorilla that loses interest (and focus) every 6 months? At a conference last year with a Google and MS rep, Google said they were in it for the advertising. MS said they were in it to defeat Google.

OpenGIS on the other hand is in it for the users. You could work on a project, consult, or help organizations transition to sustainable and professional projects (especially right now with the economy….), and in the long run secure your position as a GIS professional developer….

]]> By: Bigguth Dikkuth http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/05/28/bing-maps-for-enterprise/#comment-11552 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:06:22 +0000 http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/?p=2749#comment-11552 ChrisW- Thanks for posting the definitions for Bing. More choices there than on a chinese restaurant menu.

We need to be looking beyond the presentation level and pay more attention to the heavy lifting on the back end.

Microsoft is also getting serious about high performance computing. A windows machine (in Shanghai) is the 10th fastest supercomputer:
http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/microsoft/35913/

ESRI’s new routing service looks good …
http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline/world_routing.html
… but it seems like the world is ready for more sophisticated routing services.

I wonder whose server will be best at solving the Chinese Postman problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_postman

]]> By: RobertW http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/05/28/bing-maps-for-enterprise/#comment-11551 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:07:47 +0000 http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/?p=2749#comment-11551 For those of you that want to play with Bing and are still using IE6, BEWARE!!

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22484943-Microsofts-new-Bing-search-hijacks-Google-toolbar-in-IE6

]]> By: atanas entchev http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/05/28/bing-maps-for-enterprise/#comment-11550 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:39:45 +0000 http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/?p=2749#comment-11550 Bill? Is that you?

]]> By: Bigguth Dikkuth http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/05/28/bing-maps-for-enterprise/#comment-11549 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:22:04 +0000 http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/?p=2749#comment-11549 Microsoft already has a product called MAPS. It has nothing to do with maps.
https://partner.microsoft.com/40016455

]]> By: ChrisW http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/05/28/bing-maps-for-enterprise/#comment-11548 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:20:02 +0000 http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/?p=2749#comment-11548 @Bigguth Diccuth:
“Still, I do wonder what Bing means in Chinese”

According to the handy online dictionary at http://www.mandarintools.com/, you can choose from the following 24 options, depending on the intonation:

1. bīng soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike
2. bīng ice
3. bīng arrow-quiver
4. bīng Trachycarpus excelsa
5. bīng areca
6. bǐng the third of the ten heavenly stems; the third position; third; number three
7. bǐng get rid of; put aside; reject; keep control; hold back
8. bǐng sad; mournful
9. bǐng bright; glorious
10. bǐng authority; handle; hilt
11. bǐng bright; brilliant; luminous
12. bǐng (surname); to grasp; hold; maintain
13. bǐng natural property or endowment; report to (a superior)
14. bǐng bright ; shining, splendid
15. bǐng (surname); ancient city name; happy
16. bǐng plate
17. bǐng scabbard
18. bǐng round flat cake; cookie; cake; pastry
19. bìng and; furthermore; (not) at all; simultaneously; also; together with; to combine; to join; to merge
20. bìng amalgamate; combine
21. bìng nightmare; start in sleep
22. bìng and; also; together with
23. bìng arrange; drive off; expel
24. bìng ailment; sickness; illness; disease; fall ill; sick; defect

None of these are especially inspiring as product names. Number 9 might be tempting except for the awkward conflict with number8. My money’s on number 24, though.

I wonder what today’s special is…?

]]> By: Bing Bang Boom http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2009/05/28/bing-maps-for-enterprise/#comment-11547 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:27:53 +0000 http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/?p=2749#comment-11547 Well, at least MS is trying to make themselves look cool. That a lot more than I can say about your avatar…

It no worky eiher.

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