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Share a link to Bing maps, so that the map directly opens in Bird's Eye View

When I share a link to Bing maps, the map always opens in "standard mode". I want it to default or go directly to the Bird's Eye View mode.

What I want to do is this:

1. Open Bing maps
2. Switch to Bird's Eye View, zoom in, and rotate the view
3. Share a link to that, with the exact settings that I made.

So when someone opens my link, it should directly open in Bird's Eye View, zoom in exactly like I did, and so on.

Is it possible to share a link like this?

How do map applications calculate travel times?

What is the simulated speed used to calculate the travel time for each route?

Is it the speed limit for each road, simulated speed by actual time, or something else?

Create link to Bing maps with push pin at the centre

I want to be able to include a link to Bing Maps at specific geocordinates and preferably include a pushpin at those same coordinates.

I have no problem with the centering on coordinates part of that as follows: http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=53.02102351~-1.48398532&lvl=16&dir=0&sty=c just replacing the coordinates with those I need, but it doesn't seem possible to add a push pin to this in case I'm missing something?

Map website where I can copy a village's name (ex:麻布十番, want text form, not image)

I am preparing an itinerary with Google Maps, and have spot a village on the way where it would be convenient to stay. To look for hosting in that village, I need to copy paste this village's name into a booking search engine.

PROBLEM: The village's name is in Japanese with a complex character I can not read.
The name is in the image. Switching to Google Maps in English gives a transliterated string that is not useful because it collides with hundreds of other places with a different name but same pronunciation.
How to get this village's name in text form?

Note: Most Japanese can not read all villages names, so it would be useful to a bunch of people, not just me.

Find an optimal route between multiple map locations

For me the ideal app would push the route to Google maps so I could save it to My Maps and use Google Navigation in the car to travel the route. Any solution would be good though.

Here's an example of what I'm trying to accomplish:
We're in a completely new city/state, don't know the area, looking to buy a new home. Before we ride around with an agent we'd like to drive around to say 10-15 houses and check out the neighborhoods so we can focus our initial search with the agent.

Ideally I could plug 15 addresses into Google Maps and it would optimize the route. (FYI, this is the "traveling salesman problem"). However, Google doesn't attempt to optimize the route and just takes the order you feed it.

House Hunting Area background checking tools

Hi I'm looking to buy a property very soon and want to make an informed choice. As such I am searching for tools to aid me in researching the surrounding area's of houses I am interested in. The kind of information I'm after is flood risk/crime risk/nieghbours risk (difficult to assess ie children = noise etc)

So far I have discovered the following resources:

http://houseprices.co.uk/

http://environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/37793.aspx

http://maps.police.uk/view/dorset/

http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadHome.do;jessionid=ac1f930d30d6179457030e7348e5bf27f6e25d1d5db1?m=0&s=1285270427272&enc=1&nsjs=true&nsck=true&nssvg=false&nswid=1680

However I'm really looking for more! The best solution would be a google/bing/whoever map mashup of this data into a super map so i could make a really informed decision

Thanks

Alec

192.com "superzoom" 4cm resolution aerial imagery

192.com used to have super high resolution aerial imagery (for London at least) .. but it seems to have disappeared. Now it just seems to be serving imagery from Bing.

Is there anywhere else this aerial imagery can be viewed?

How to copy a track from Bing Maps to Google Maps

I have a track in Bing Maps, but I'd like to get it somehow to Google Maps. Is this possible? If so, how?

How do I tell Bing Maps to always default to “automatic” view?

Bing Maps offers three views:

• Road
• Birds-Eye
• Automatic, which switches between Road and Birds-Eye view depending on your zoom level.

I want Bing Maps to always come up in Automatic view, but I can’t seem to find a setting for it. Every time I use a map it starts out in Road view.

I tried logging in (thinking it might save my view), and I’ve tried the “Preferences” link in the upper-right corner (there was nothing relevant).

How do I default to Automatic view?

Change Pin Icons in Bing Maps

Is it possible to change the icons for pushpins in "My Places"?

If I import a Google Maps kml I can see the custom icons from Goole but I can't figure out how to change them in Bing Maps.

Is Aerial View officially gone from maps in Microsoft's Bing?

I see Bird's Eye view is still available, but the Aerial View was much more valuable for spotting landmarks, evaluating real estate, neighborhoods, etc. Plus it was just a whole lot more interesting.

I spent some time searching, but found no comments from anyone about the missing fly-over aerial pictures. Anyone know if they are just going through a transition or are they gone for good?

Static Image URL using Bing Maps with Polygon Shape

Google Maps has a URL call that can create a polygon and create an image with this information. I am trying to find something similar for Bing. I read their static image documentation and it just talks about pushpins.

See Google Maps example:

Bing Maps can't find 10 Downing Street

I have an English OS, Firefox locale is English. I happen to physically be in Japan.
Bing Maps can't find 10 Downing Street, London:

It can find Japanese addresses, though.

QUESTION: Is there a way to make Bing Maps understand addresses of all countries, not just the country I happen to be in right now?

• I never asked Bing to use Japanese. I just happen to be in Japan.
• I don't have a Bing account. The setting (default) appear to be English:

Finding businesses within a n mile radius of a point with Google Maps or Earth

I'm working on an article that seeks to find a certain type of business within my borough. Ideally I'd be able to supply a KML file and have it return only businesses within those bounds, but I'm not super optimistic that's possible and thus am settling for another approach: given a lat/lng set located in the centre of my borough, is there any way for either Google Maps or Earth (Or even Bing or OpenStreetMaps or whatever at this point -- I'm not picky) to return all businesses within a, say, 2.5 mile radius?

It seems like this is something Google Maps should be able to do; a query like "businesses Z near X,Y" does this somewhat (though it seems there's no way of defining what exactly "near" means). Any thoughts? Thanks!

Plotting walking trails on a map without a GPS device

I want to mark some walking trails on a map and share them with friends. I don't have any GPS devices so I will be drawing them manually.

Since this may take some time, I would prefer that they will be in a format that I can export later.

Is there a web app can I use to plot these tracks without needing to own or have a GPS locator?