The Mapping for Results Platform provides detailed information about our work to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development around the world. This pilot website aims to visualize the location of our projects and to provide access to information about indicators, sectors, funding and results.
Prior to the Spring Meetings 2011, Mapping for Results has identified more than 1250 active Bank financed activities working in 16,520 locations. These activities are a subset of more than 2,500 active financed Bank activities with a volume of more than $160 billion.
This week, Bing Maps launched a website that showcases what leading professionals and developers are saying about the state of digital mapping as it relates to the Bing Maps Platform.
Developers from the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia gathered at the 2011 Microsoft MVP conference and agreed to talk about what it is they leverage most with AJAX 7.0 and their favorite mapping APIs. We captured their insights on video, which are now available on Bing API Talk.
Featured developers include:
Ricky Brundritt, the 2010 King of Bing Maps
Brian Norman, Earthware
Alastair Aitchison, a3uk
Steve Milroy, OnTerra Systems
John O’Brien, Soul Solutions
Vivien Yang and Cleve Pasarell, Zimbio
Visit the new website to watch the developer videos, see sample code and read the latest from the Bing Community. We’ll be updating the page frequently, so stop by often.
Before Google Map Maker—a product that enables people to add to and update the map for locations around the world—only 15 percent of the world’s population had detailed online maps of their neighborhoods. Using Map Maker, people have built out and edited the maps for 183 countries and regions around the world, and now, due to the contributions of citizen cartographers, 30 percent of people have detailed online maps of the places they live.
Map Maker users have mapped entire cities, road networks and universities that were never previously recorded online. These contributions have been incorporated into Google Maps and Google Earth, so the collective expertise of the Map Maker community benefits the millions of people using these products globally.
Today we’re opening the map of the United States in Google Map Maker for you to add your expert local knowledge directly. You know your neighborhood or hometown best, and with Google Map Maker you can ensure the places you care about are richly represented on the map. For example, you can fix the name of your local pizza parlor, or add a description of your favorite book store.
You can help make the map complete in other ways as well, such as marking the bike lanes in your town or adding all of the buildings on your university campus so they appear in Google Maps. We’ve seen incredibly detailed contributions from power users worldwide, including this comprehensive map of IIT Bombay. We’re eager to see you add the same level of detail to locations in the United States.
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
To confirm Map Maker user contributions are accurate, each edit will be reviewed. After approval, the edits will appear in Google Maps within minutes—dramatically speeding up the time it takes for online maps to reflect the often-changing physical world.
