Sydney headquartered MapData Sciences Pty Ltd (MDS) has been appointed Australian and New Zealand reseller for Virtual Earth and MapPoint Web Services, Microsoft Corporation’s web-based mapping service.
The Virtual Earth platform is an integrated set of services that combines unique bird's-eye aerial and satellite imagery with best-of-breed mapping, location and search functionality. Virtual Earth is used with Microsoft’s programmable MapPoint Web Service to integrate location-based services such as maps, driving directions and proximity searches into software applications and business processes.
The appointment of MDS to set up MapPoint Web Services and Virtual Earth customer accounts and to provide end user support is designed to meet the escalating level of interest in mapping and location services across industry and government in Australia and New Zealand.
MapData Sciences has been supplying mapping data to Microsoft Corporation and its affiliates since 2002. In 2003 Microsoft developed the MapPoint web service which was launched at Microsoft’s premier technical conference, Tech.Ed 2004 in Canberra.
