Bing Maps: BlackBerry PlayBook – How To Demo (Official Demo Video)

(Official BlackBerry® PlayBook™ Demo) Learn how Bing Maps on your BlackBerry PlayBook can find your location, give you directions and more! To view more BlackBerry PlayBook demo videos, visit: demos.blackberry.com/playbook

http://www.youtube.com/v/G17Zq2UdqwY?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata

WeatherSpark Beta

WeatherSpark Beta– Historical weather patterns visualised

An excellent Google maps mashup -an early contender for best gmap 2011.

WeatherSpark Beta

“WeatherSpark is a pretty amazing Google Map of current and historical weather conditions. The site lets you view the historical records of over 4,000 weather stations.”


example above
http://weatherspark.com/#!graphs;ws=28726;t=321909;mspp=37115493

Climate Patterns
WeatherSpark Climate Beta

If you are more interested in today’s weather you can just center the map on your location and view the current temperature and the current precipitation radar

http://weatherspark.com/#

source:
googlemapsmania

Facebook Places using Bing Maps

Facebook has launched ‘Facebook Placesaccessible 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