Introducing SharePoint Bing Mapper Directory System

SharePoint Bing Mapper Directory System

Personnel directory information
 visualized on a Bing Map.

Okay, the application name might need to be re-worked.  It is however a tough nut to put a name on.

It performs the following:

• Building Information Modeling
• Personnel Location Tracking
• Asset Location Tracking
• Interior Route Management (in development)
• Directory Service for People
• Directory Service for Buildings
• Directory Service for Assets and Equipment (locate the printer with all the features you need or the conference room with that certain projector).
• Facilities Management

To sum it up it is an Enhanced Bing Maps Enterprise Application.  

A big bonus?  Once the application is installed and configured almost no developer interaction is required.  Now that doesn't mean you can't have developer interaction.  The application allows for advanced styling (css and jQuery) and extension.  Tying map objects to additional pages or even integrating with outside applications via web services are both easily achievable.

In upcoming additions to this blog I intend to create demonstrations for a few of the applications described above...for now, I will leave you with a few screenshots.  

An office interior with personnel and office equipment combined on the map.
The popup is easily configured to show information specific to the map object,
in this case a printer has been clicked and the printer features are shown.

The Larimer County Fairgrounds building interiors mapped.
Notice the slide down menus provide a directory of rooms
by category.

A conference room has been select, centering the map over the
room.  The room has been clicked, opening a popup describing
the room and the rates to rent it.

So how to name something with such broad capabilities?  That is my quandary...feel free to ponder with me in the comments section.