Today we would like to announce the release of the Bing Maps .NET Spatial Data Services Toolkit on Github which makes it easy to use the Bing Maps spatial data services within a .NET application.
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When presenting custom location data in Bing Maps applications, a frequent requirement is to geocode the addresses of your location data prior to presenting them on the map, ensuring that you have latitude and longitude coordinates that accurately reflect the real-world locations. 
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The Bing Spatial Data Services (SDS) allow you to submit large amounts of addresses for batch-geocoding as well as GPS-coordinates for reverse geocoding. You can download the results or keep them in our data centers and retrieve your points of interest (POI) within a distance of a specific location or along a route through the SDS Query API.
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In this blog post we are going to take a look at augmented reality apps and how to create them as Windows Store apps. When many people hear the words “augmented reality” the first thought that comes to mind is the large helmet type video games but that is not really the "reality" of Augmented Reality today
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If you manage data sources in Bing Maps then you know we’ve made several updates to the Bing Maps Account Center and the REST Web Services in the last few weeks. 
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Today, we launched Bing Spatial Data Services, adding next generation spatial search to the Bing API offering. This release offers the benefits of cloud hosting and distributed computing, allowing customers to upload their data to our servers and perform spatial queries under the umbrella of their existing Bing Maps License.
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The Australian National Diabetes Services Scheme published an interesting Virtual Earth map application illustrating the spread and penetration of diabetes across the country. 
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We in the GIS and LBS world have long wondered how it would be possible to create such a mapping engine that would render the most accurate, up to date maps available with roads and points of interest, geographic boundaries, etc., etc.. Now we have Bing Maps Spatial Data Services to do just that!
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The Microsoft Maps team has created a collection rendering all of the earthquakes in the USGS data service
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The Location Intelligence Conference in Santa Clara, CA. workshop focused on integration points between Virtual Earth and SQL Server. 
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