Clustering of pushpins in Bing Maps consists of grouping together nearby locations into clusters. As the user zooms in, the clusters break apart to reveal the individual locations. The goal of this process is to reduce the number of pushpins that are displayed on the map at any given time. 
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Today we are announcing the availability of updated Bing Maps SDKs for Windows Store apps for both Microsoft Windows 8.0 and 8.1 in the Visual Studio Gallery. 
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This month, we are excited to announce 13 million sq km, or 315.92 terabytes, of new aerial imagery from around the world. Click on the links below to explore the new and exciting imagery from Bing Maps.
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In this post, we will show how you can use another of the Bing Developer Services – the Bing Translator Control and Microsoft Translator API – to localize your own custom content within your Bing Maps applications. We will use the Microsoft Translator API to demonstrate how we can localize custom content in a web application using our Web Map control, and we will also use the Bing Translator Control to show how we can localize custom...
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We are pleased to announce a new Japan geocoder that improves how you search for a Japanese address on http://www.bing.com/maps and how you geocode a Japanese address using the Bing Maps APIs.
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Recently we published a blog post titled "How to Create a Spatial Web Service That Connects a Database to Bing Maps Using EF5." This post showed how to create a web service that connected Bing Maps to a database using the spatial functionality in Entity Framework 5 (EF5). In that example we only implemented a basic nearby search query. In this post, we are going to expand upon that application and add in more advance spatial search...
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Heat maps are an effective means of visualizing geography-based trends by showing the relative density of location-based data. We can see where we have ‘hot spots’ in our data, and use this insight to drive better decisions for application users. In this blog post, we will show how you can visualize location data in the form of a heat map within Windows Store apps, pulling in both public points-of-interest data sources available within...
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With the Polaris release of Dynamics CRM Online, Bing Maps has been integrated directly into the Process forms for Accounts, Contacts and Leads. The integration is quite basic, however; the existing address details associated with the entity are geocoded when the form is displayed, and the results are used to show a map of the location. 
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Depending on the type of application you are creating, you may find it useful to be able to share a map with someone. Whether it’s a map of a single location or a map with a route on it, this can easily be accomplished in a Windows Store app.
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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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