Podcast: Interview with Ricky Brundritt, The King of Bing Maps
In this interview, I spoke with Ricky Brundritt, a GIS consultant with Infusion in London UK, and the King of Bing Maps. Ricky’s Taxicab Calculator won 1st prize in the King of Bing Maps contest sponsored by Microsoft and in this conversation we discuss the ease of use in working with the Bing Maps API, how long it took him to develop the app and how Bing’s API compares to Google. Ricky also won 3rd place for his data viewer application that integrates shapefiles and imports a GeoRSS feed.
Ricky also mentioned that he is currently in the process of creating a company called “inKnowledge” that will be offering a REST web service that can calculate taxi fares. "This will make it easy for mobile applications to add this functionality to their apps. I’m currently setting everything on Azure and am using Bing maps in the backend. I’m also looking into updating the Taxi fare calculator to add in functionality to show local taxi companies after a user searches. I’m also looking into adding the ability to book taxi’s directly from the app (this will be done by partnering with existing companies that have this functionality). We plan to have this functionality available in London, UK by mid-September. In addition I’ve been collecting data for a lot more cities from around the world. I’ve also had several people from Microsoft reach out to me with rates for cities that I didn’t have data for. By the end of September I plan to have data for over 100 cities from around the world available on the Bing Maps Taxi fare calculator app," said Ricky.
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