CARDIFF BY THE SEA, Calif., Oct. 6, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MGN Online, America's #1 resource for Still and Animated News Graphics, launches BuildMyOwn (BMO) Maps V2.0, a Premium Quality Maps Builder for the news industry featuring Bing Maps. Create Professional, High Quality Maps… in just 4 simple steps. First select a location on the map, highlight a region of interest, select appropriate icons from the MGN archive, title your map and export the finished product.
BuildMyOwn Maps V2.0 is designed for anyone on your news staff to quickly and efficiently produce Maps. Illustrate events such as a traffic detour or car accident, the location of a crime, house fires and other news stories that are best highlighted with a geographical map. News Directors and Graphic Designers alike can use BuildMyOwn Maps to meet deadlines, improve workflow and productivity.
"Our BuildMyOwn Apps have been a great tool for our affiliates to create quality images. We are excited about our new V2.0 release of both our Graphics and now our Map Builder. We are sure that everyone will appreciate all of the thought and hard work we put into our BMO applications", explained MGN Online CEO, Gill Davis.
The new version of BuildMyOwn Maps V2.0 offers many new features. MGN partnered with Bing Maps for an even better user experience including excellent visualization features for roads, streets and easy navigation. Bing Maps provide a wide range of new options that improves the overall quality and results. BMO Maps also offers Numerous Drawing tools and shapes to illustrate locations, hundreds of symbols and icons, and an array of fonts and editing tools for titling.
About MGN Online
MGN Online is America's premier resource for Still and Animated News Graphics, with a wide-ranging client roster of Affiliates extending across television, newspaper, web, mobile and multi-media platforms. MGN Online currently provides over 750 U.S. media outlets with their daily News Graphics, Photos and Elements. Subscribers are given unlimited access to an extensive library/database of quality Still and Animated News Graphics. MGN Online serves newscasts, webcasts, newspapers, web radio and other News and Information services 24/7 through its innovative content creation, storage and distribution facilities. MGN Online is a division of Multimedia Graphic Network Inc., founded in 1982 and based in Cardiff by the Sea, California.
About Bing Maps
Bing Maps is a web mapping service provided as a part of Microsoft's Bing suite of search engines and powered by the Bing Maps for Enterprise framework. Users can browse and search topographically-shaded street maps for many cities worldwide. Maps include certain points of interest built-in, such as metro stations, stadiums, hospitals, and other facilities. It is also possible to browse public user-created points of interest. Searches can cover public collections, businesses or types of business, locations, or people. Five primary types of street map views are available to users: Road View, Aerial View, Bird's Eye View, StreetSide View, and 3D View.