{"id":3971,"date":"2010-08-03T11:04:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T09:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2010-08-03T11:04:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T09:04:44","slug":"calculate-taxi-cab-fares-with-bing-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/03\/calculate-taxi-cab-fares-with-bing-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculate Taxi Cab Fares With Bing Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to a new app,\u00a0Bing Maps<\/a> now calculates the cab fare on a route between two points.<\/p>\n

The Taxi Fare Calculator was developed by Ricky Brundritt as a submission to the King of Bing Maps competition.<\/p>\n

The app is available at the\u00a0Bing Maps website<\/a> right now. Just pick a region (results are best within a major metropolitan area, such as New York or London) and type in two addresses. The app gives the shortest route and a fare estimate based on normal rates for cabs in the area. The pick-up charge, time charges and by-the-mile costs are all factored in where applicable.<\/p>\n

This tool should prove helpful to users who want to save some cash by comparing routes or who need to make sure they have the money on hand for a trip they intend to take.<\/p>\n

Taxi Fare Calculator is one of many apps being considered for Microsoft\u2019s\u00a0King of Bing Maps<\/a> title. The winner will soon be selected by a panel that includes CNET\u2019s Josh Lowensohn, Search Engine Land\u2019s Greg Sterling and Directions\u2019 Joe Francica. Expect the announcement to show up on the Bing blog August 20.<\/p>\n

The Bing blog\u00a0already features<\/a> a few other candidates along with Taxi Fare Calculator, including World of Football, Random Location, Ricky\u2019s Data Viewer, Apo-AT, Festivals de Theatre, GeoSalesTax and Microsoft Regional Directors. You can use some of the candidates in Bing Maps right now.<\/p>\n

Microsoft has been using this competition and other initiatives to tout Bing Maps\u2019 development API and snazzy Silverlight 4 bells and whistles. This product needs to compete in a market already dominated by more entrenched applications such as\u00a0Google Maps<\/a> and Mapquest. It\u2019s not easy to beat the reigning champions, but\u00a0Foursquare integration<\/a> and apps such as the\u00a0Tour de France map<\/a> and the\u00a0street level stargazing feature<\/a> are as likely to offer a formidable challenge as anything we\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n

What do you think of the competition apps so far?<\/p>\n

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(from Mashable<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to a new app,\u00a0Bing Maps now calculates the cab fare on a route between two points. The Taxi Fare Calculator was developed by Ricky Brundritt as a submission to the King of Bing Maps competition. The app is available at the\u00a0Bing Maps website right now. Just pick a region (results are best within a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[183,89],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bing","tag-mashable"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}