Facebook Places using Bing Maps

Facebook has launched ‘Facebook Places‘ accessible and the new Facebook iPhone application touch.facebook.com site on your moblie device. Select the Places button, find the location where you are and check-in. Just like that, the check-in will flow to your profile on Facebook.com complete with a Bing Map, a pin of your location and any commentary you’ve added to your check-in.

Places also includes the ability to see where your friends have checked in, a link to get directions to a place (via Bing Maps) and a Like button for the respective place page. The place information bubbles up to the actual Places page which has a larger map experience, plus an update for you to see all of your friends who’ve visited that location. This means you can see where your friends are checking and discover new places.

Facebook Places Bing Maps

With 500 million users overnight have the ability to check-in to locations providing a wealth of information to you and your friends about businesses, common places to visit and who of your friends is going to the most random locations.


Source and Image: http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/maps/archive/2010/08/18/facebook-places-launches-with-bing-d-out-maps.aspx

Converting SketchUp 8 models to ArcGIS 10 Multipatch features.

This instructional video demonstrates how to take a 3D building model created in SketchUp version 8 and convert it to a multipatch feature that can be used in ArcGIS 10 – ArcScene and ArcGlobe. The process uses Collada as the exchange format.