Mapping a Business on Bing Maps - Employee Mapping

Mapping a Business on the SharePoint Bing Mapper 

In this post I will be demonstrating how to map a business on Bing maps.  This post will focus on showing employees on a Bing Map using indoor mapping, thereby creating a directory of employees.  In upcoming posts I will show other views that will include creating directories of conference rooms (including scheduling), mapping IT equipment to locations, etc.. 

Indoor map of an office on Bing Maps showing employee's assigned locations.

Live Demonstration!

Navigation Tips:

1. Use the breadcrumb to select building, switch floors, change sites and zoom to offices.
2. Use the search box in the Employee Directory list control to filter employees by name or job title.  Just enter the first few letters to narrow results.
3. In the Employee Directory list highlighting an employee will center them on the map.
4. Hovering over an employee will show their name.
5. Clicking an employee will give you a detailed information.

Pretty neat stuff.  Seams to me that any business with with more than a handful of employees could use a director system like this.  Indoor mapping used to manage employees locations!  Great additions to an intranet and a great tool for HR.

Here is a series of screen shots of how easy it is to move employees from one location to another (switch offices or desks):

Select employee with a right click, select move from action menu.

Move the cursor to the new location and double click.

Confirm that you intended to move the employee.

That's it, the employee is now in their new location, directory updated!