+ Draggable Routes – Yes! This is a great (and much requested) feature added to Bing Maps allowing you to generate a route, then in the case that you need to change the route, you can simply grab any part of it and drag it to where you want the route to actually go.
+ Zoom Bar – No longer just a zoom in and zoom out button, the zoom bar allows you to jump to specific zoom levels within predefined settings
+ Command Parsing – Want driving directions? Enter “Bellevue, WA to Space Needle” in the Bing Maps search box. Want traffic info? Enter “Seattle Traffic” in the Bing Maps search box.
+ Embed a Map – You can now take a map view right from Bing Maps and embed it into your site. To do this, you’ll want to click the Share button once your map is where you want it to be. You can copy the embed code from there; or, you can click the Customize View link which will take you to the embeddable map customizer (EMC).
Source: Bing Maps Blog
As we said last night, to find the "Bird's Eye" imagery, enter a location in the "big search box" (NOT the directions search box unless you want directions) found at the top of this page. Click enter. Now, at the top of the map you should see a drop down box that labeled "aerial." Drop down and select Bird's Eye imagery. That's it you'll be looking at some cool content. Bird's Eye imagery is NOT available for every location around the globe. If you come across a location where it's not available, the Bird's Eye button will not light up when you use the drop down menu.
How can you create a direct links to a specific location to view a map, aerial imagery or a Bird's Eye images? You'll need to build your own URL. Follow the directions on this page.
*** Note to Microsoft: We're a bit disappointed at ResourceShelf. While it's certainly possible to create direct links to specific locations and images, it's a challenge. Sure, you can have users step through the entire process by searching, clicking, zooming, and selecting a specific map or image but if you want to include a direct link to an image or map in a school report (for example) it's going to take some time to get use to the method.
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
