Bing Maps and the Cochran Coke Ovens

[James86004]

I was playing with Bing maps this morning, I discovered a nice feature. I was looking for the Ashust-Hayden Diversion Dam near Florence, Arizona, so I typed in "Florence, AZ". Under the search box, there are options to search for Businesses, People, Collections, and Locations. I clicked the Collections one, and little placemarks popped up on the map. One of them was the "Butte-Cochran Charcoal Ovens", which is in the collection National Register of Historic Places. The placemark is right on the ovens.

I did not know those were on the NRHP, and learned something about them.

The map:

http://www.bing.com/maps/default.as...5NjYxNDIyNjU1OTc0JTdlLTEwOS41NzM1MTY4NDU3MDM=

The info about the ovens:

http://www.nr.nps.gov/iwisapi/explorer.dll?IWS_SCHEMA=NRIS1&IWS_LOGIN=1&IWS_REPORT=100000044

 

[1leglance]

very nice, I had not heard of bing before.
thanks

 

[Bodo]

Bing is Microsoft's answer to Google.