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Bing Launches Tour De France Bing Maps App

Chris Crum — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:00:15 +0000

Microsoft’s Bing has been doing some really interesting things with Bing Maps, and more specifically Bing Maps Apps. This week, the company launched a new map app for the Tour De France, which starts today and runs through July 25th.

"The 97th Tour de France will be made up of 1 prologue and 20 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,642 kilometers," says Bing’s Chris Pendleton. "I was looking at Le Tour de France site and they have this PDF route map – a bit antiquated. I’m going to go out on a limb and say you might want to check out the Bing 2010 Tour de France map app for a better experience."

Key features of the app include:

- Each stage of the event being displayed on the map with pushpins to indicate the start and finish

- Interactive profiles displayed along the top of the map, which lets you see elevation and slope changes for the selected stage

- Stage description and weather prediction

- Daily results.

Pendleton says the best experience is in Bird’s Eye View (enhanced). More info about the app can be found here.

Track the Tour de France With Google Earth

Glenn Letham — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:31:53 +0000

Now that “the cup” is done with… talk about a lame finish… sports enthusiasts might want to track the tour de france using google earth with some very cool 3d fly-throughs.

The Tour de France on Google Earth is available in French, German, Spanish and English – more info here or jump to here – see standings, photos, 3D imagery, interviews, news and much more.

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Google Earth Rides Tour De France

WebProNews Staff — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:48:00 +0000

The Google Earth application allows bicycling fans to follow the latest version of the legendary race from their computers, a much easier task than biking up the Pyrenees.

Google Earth Tours France

The first Tour de France took place in 1903, with 60 participants, a wide margin of victory, and no Internet. This year, nearly two hundred riders started the Tour. And the Internet brings the race to the PC.

Through the Google Earth application, viewers in the US and elsewhere can take a look at the race from a unique perspective. “You will no longer miss anything: reliefs, stage cities, results, departures or arrival lines,” the Tour’s web page about the Google Earth view noted.

Once the Tour de France route has been saved to “My Places” in Google Earth, course information will be automatically updated. The unofficial Google Earth Blog explained how this will work:

The author of the Tour de France Google Earth file, showing the routes of the stages of this year’s race, has now added an ability to provide live tracking of race progress. Download the TdF network link, then open the “Tour de France 2006″ places folder and turn on “Live TDF”. You will see a red bike showing the current progress of the race, and it indicates the distance travelled and local time stamp.

While Google Earth has been a successful application for Google, other attempts to implement a similar service have been met with mixed results. Microsoft’s Virtual Earth now powers the company’s Local Live online service, for one example.

France has tried implementing a mapping service similar to the offerings from Google and Microsoft. Although its debut promptly crashed on launch, and its numerous blurred-out areas have lead some French bloggers to call its view that of “Emmenthal country,” (Emmenthan being a cheese with holes), it has moved on to be a widely viewed application according to a report in the Times Online.

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