Bing Maps vs. FME

Bing Maps gives access to clear background aerial imagery. The imagery and street views are quite up to date which helps quite a bit. There should, however, be more features included on Bing Maps.

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I created the FME script to generate the centerline polyline. It works very well and faster than we used the Esri api from the code side.

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• Close ups on the street 360 is very clear
• The to and from for directions is very accurate
• The features are very user-friendly

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• I used that to create the polyline
• Used that to do the reprojection
• Used that to extract spatial data
• Used that to do the intersect
• Used that to do the locate

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• include more features
• make it compatible with other data that can be imported

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• Should allow script to change the database connection
• Should provide more details and user friendly error log information

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Home Depot and Lowes are both in the same category and offer great products and services but each have something a little different the other doesn't offer or have. Likewise, Bing Maps is in the same category as Google Maps but offers a little something slightly different in the features.

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FME not only be able to do the data transfer and transformation, but also be able to perform the spatial process. Astera cannot do the spatial process at the moment.

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• More customers have seen our locations on Maps
• Customers have called the phone numbers on our Maps pages
• Bing Search has picked up on Bing Maps changes

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• Easy to create and easy to understand when compare to the Esri api code
• Difficult to debug when the error happens

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