This is a video showing the Silverlight Bing Maps Control for Windows Phone 7 showing some serious lagging behaviour on my HTC 7 Trophy. As you can see the built-in Windows Phone maps app performs normally (note that it’s a native thing and doesn’t use the Bing Maps Control), but the two user apps, Map Mania and Slim Tanken, both show some serious lagging while pinching/zooming
Right or Wrong with Google Maps and Bing Maps
I would like to point attention to this small errors in Bing Maps and Google maps.
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Town of Dupnitsa, Bulgaria (42.2624644, 23.108754). As you can see above The label of the town is totally wrong according to Bing Maps. Stanke Dimitrov is an old name (20 years ago) of the town. Seems that Bing’s labels database is little bit old although that they refresh their imaginary and map lairs for this area 4 month ago.
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The other two pictures represent an label error made from Google Maps. In Google Maps- Vrajdebna (42.71183, 23.41169) – one of the neighborhoods in Sofia -capital of Bulgaria is written as Kremikovtsi. Kremikovtsi is a small town which is near Sofia. You can see it in the same image.
If you have some errors or something like that you can send me the coordinates. I send couple of mails to Bing Maps and to Google Maps in order to help but I had no answers… 🙂
Bing Maps: Turkey and Travel
What do pistachios, Turkey, and travel have in common? In a recent post on the New York Times’ Frugal Traveler blog, we learn that a city called Gaziantep located in southeastern Turkey is the self-proclaimed pistachio capital, and apparently a trip there is lovely and quite affordable.
While the blog itself is a good read, the New York Times needed an easy way for readers to visually follow the blogger on his 10-week Mediterranean adventure this summer. So they turned to Bing Maps.
Using Bing Maps developer tools, the New York Times created a mapping feature that shows the blogger’s current location, where he had been, and where he was going. Readers just click to navigate between locations, easily moving between blog posts and traveling the Mediterranean vicariously through the Frugal Traveler.
If you’re interested in learning more about dev APIs and what you can do with them, visit the Bing Maps site.