King of Bing Maps App Contest Winners announced

I’m a huge fan of Bing Map Apps – I think it’s a great platform for people to innovate on and the King Of Bing Maps App Competition has shown that. The winners have just been announced and the Taxi Fare Calculator from Ricky Brundritt took top spot – rightly so as it’s a simple but effective example of what you can build. Mind you, I’m not so sure on the London pricing. 20 quid from Chiswick to Shoreditch is definitely optimistic!

I also really like Ricky’s data viewer from Infusion Development where you can plot data on to the map. Here for example is the path of Hurricane Ivan which hit in 2004.

Hats (or crowns) off to all the winners and if you think you can do better, go grab the SDK and make it happen. You can also Check out all of the entries in the Map App Gallery