County to purchase additional dispatch mapping licenses after Microsoft ended Bing mapping support
County staff requested purchase of additional licenses from Marvelous (dispatch vendor) to replace onboard Bing mapping (decommissioned by Microsoft) at an estimated one‑time cost of $20,250 and an ongoing per‑license annual cost around $68.75; servers and infrastructure are already in place.
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Paul reported that the county’s onboard ambulance client lost Bing mapping after Microsoft ended support for the mapping service in June, which removed onboard navigation for crews on July 7. The county previously uses a dispatch CAD client (Marvelous) with servers in place; staff requested additional licenses for the Marvelous navigation solution to restore onboard mapping.
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