A real time map allows users to pinpoint a bus's location and route, while a clock counts down to the expected arrival time. Smaller stations will get public address systems and push-button telephone help points.
Vicinity's products will become part of Microsoft's MapPoint service, which offers online directions through the MSN site. MapPoint .Net 3.0 expands the geographic coverage of maps offered through MapPoint both in Europe and North America and...
A "route map to ID cards" has been outlined by the UK Passport Service (UKPS) that will see facial biometrics in passport books from 2005 and a second biometric - either a fingerprint or iris scan - on separate passport cards from 2006.
Junk remover 1-800-Got-Junk is among the first to use a specialised Microsoft server to incorporate real-time location information into maps and driving directions generated by Microsoft MapPoint Web Service, the companies have announced.
Johnston added: "In the past we used custom hand-coding for migrations but now, especially because of SOX, we need greater transparency and this is another reason for going down the product route. Scottish Power has chosen software from Informatica...
The OS data will help lorry drivers calculate the safest and most suitable route to their delivery and pick-up points, taking road height, width and weight restrictions into consideration. Digital road routing information from the Ordnance Survey...