Then I thought, maybe that will open up hot new markets (pun intended) in areas that are currently, to put it mildly (oh stop!) rather sparsely populated.
Like northern Ontario. Not, say, like Timmins or even Kapuskasing, but the REAL north (at least as far as folks in Toronto are concerned)...
...wayyyy up in muskeg country:
What made me think that? This Microsoft demonstration, that's what. It shows the locations of "the top 3 salespeople", with one of them being... wait for it... wayyyy up in muskeg country:
Holy Crap! There are already HUGE SALES OPPORTUNITIES in northern Ontario! There must be, if one of Microsoft's top salespeople is located there!
And then I went to Google Maps to see what's actually up there, and typed in "ontario, canada" to get started.
Voila! The answer! That's exactly where Google Maps puts the little red pin when you just ask for "ontario, canada".
Right in the middle of muskeg country:
So, good on ya, Microsoft. Super duper demo, those wonderful new mapping features in SQL Server 2008 really do work well!
Zooms right in there, gives me those precise answers I've always been looking for!
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