Virtual Earth Empowers Retailers
To See, and Show, the Big Picture
Retailers are using Virtual Earth to:
- Reach customers on the Web and help drive them to their store locations.
- Engage shoppers by enabling social networking, posting product reviews, and more.
- Gain insight by showing how stores are performing by location and region.
A Richer Mapping Experience—Wherever Your Customers Are
Create engaging applications for your customers and develop powerful ways to visualize business information by combining online maps with your integrated data.
The Virtual Earth platform offers:
- The same rich, robust, customizable imagery available on mobile devices and on the desktop.
- Broader international mapping capabilities, including localized maps in English, Italian, Spanish, French, and German for Western Europe, and increased parsing elsewhere globally.
- Richer data, including more than 70% of all U.S. rooftops included, as well as enhanced features like pushpin clustering, landmark-based routing, and more.
- Enhanced functionality, including the new Virtual Earth Web Services API, which offers mobile-optimized static map images, direct map tile access, one-box search functionality, geocoding, reverse geocoding, and routing.
Customer Showcase
VISA
VISA is connecting customers with services more effectively using Virtual Earth ATM locator.
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VISA is connecting customers with services more effectively using Virtual Earth ATM locator.
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Windermere Real Estate
Windermere’s redesigned site enables search by several criteria, and displays properties with unique pushpins that contain property photos, price, and other details.
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Windermere’s redesigned site enables search by several criteria, and displays properties with unique pushpins that contain property photos, price, and other details.
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Harley-Davidson
The Harley-Davidson “Great Roads Explored” uses Virtual Earth to showcase dealerships and hotel partners, and to bring customers together within the context of great American motorcycle journeys.
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The Harley-Davidson “Great Roads Explored” uses Virtual Earth to showcase dealerships and hotel partners, and to bring customers together within the context of great American motorcycle journeys.
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Target
Target helps drive store traffic and effective connections with customers by pinpointing store locations using Virtual Earth.
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Target helps drive store traffic and effective connections with customers by pinpointing store locations using Virtual Earth.
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British Petroleum
After Hurricane Katrina, BP developed a Hurricane Management System that combines Virtual Earth's 3D satellite imagery, mapping software, and real-time weather data to help stakeholders visualize company assets.
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After Hurricane Katrina, BP developed a Hurricane Management System that combines Virtual Earth's 3D satellite imagery, mapping software, and real-time weather data to help stakeholders visualize company assets.
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City Of Miami
The City of Miami chose Microsoft Virtual Earth mapping software to develop online applications that provide enhanced public safety response, urban planning, and tourism services.
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The City of Miami chose Microsoft Virtual Earth mapping software to develop online applications that provide enhanced public safety response, urban planning, and tourism services.
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VISA
VISA is connecting customers with services more effectively using Virtual Earth ATM locator.
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VISA is connecting customers with services more effectively using Virtual Earth ATM locator.
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