Bing Maps - A Good Thing Has Been Messed Up

[FrankoSport]

Greetings ....

Apparently, the "brilliant minds" at Microsoft have done some really screwed-up tinkering with Bing Maps. A very good location search tool, it is now unusable in any fashion! Can't get it to work in MS-IE, Firefox or Opera.

At least, that's how it is for me. Anyone else having issues with Bing Maps?

No Thanx-A-Lot, Microsoft!
Frank

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[James]

No problem here. Have you made certain that your javascript is enabled?

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[FrankoSport]

Greetings ....

Javascript and Java are on.

The problem is that when you enter an address to be mapped, nothing happens - doesn't matter if it's classic Bing, or that nonsense called new Bing.

Thanx-A-Lot, Frank

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[James]

It works for me. I simply typed my address in the top box and the address of the place to which I wanted to go in the lower box and it mapped out the entire route. Not sure why you're having issues.

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[FrankoSport]

Greetings ....

Type in **TWO** addresses just to find out where one of them is?

That is NOT how Bing Maps operated before. If you wanted to know where a place was on a Bing Map, you just typed in that place's address - and no another - and you'd get the result you wanted. Google Maps still operates that way (one address required).

Not happy with this change, but I'll try to adjust to it.

Thanx-A-Lot, Frank

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[FrankoSport]

Greetings ...

Finally got a solution - something I should have tried first before making inquiries.

Rather than the "A" and "B" fields next to the map windows, you should type the address of interest in the entry field next to the BING name in the upper left corner of the Bing Maps web-page.

WHEW!!! - Oh, well. It was worth it. Hopefully, this helps a lot of you out there.

Thanx-A-Lot, Frank-0-Sport

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[James]

Good to hear you found a solution and thanks for sharing it.

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[terrypin]

Just found this thread while googling for help on a Bing problem of my own, so registered and posted here. Hope it's a related topic.

I'm using the Bing Maps site from my Firefox browser. With a map displayed by default in 2D, when I click the 3D button I just get an indefinite delay, with the message "Initializing Bing Maps 3D".

Anyone here able to advise please?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

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[iJohnE]

you should type the address of interest in the entry field next to the BING name in the upper left corner of the Bing Maps web-page.

Google Maps is the same way...

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