One feature of the Bing Maps APIs that has gained a lot of traction is the ability to overlay custom tiles atop the Bing Maps tiles to illustrate tons of data in a raster format.
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BBC has been quite the busy bees publishing some innovative applications on Bing Maps. Check out this list of applications: Save Our Sounds – BBC wants you to help build an interactive map of the world. So get involved and send in recordings of sounds from where you live. Listen to the sounds of the world – and then send us your audio. Cannes 2009 Map – Use this map to explore 2009’s Cannes Film Festival...
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Not the case. Well, Bing Maps is pretty much the same, but we did get the new logo and image captions of what’s on Bing.com’s home page. Oh, and the URL is now bing.com/maps; however, more importantly, there are other Bing properties that are implementing Bing Maps in a variety of ways.
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We just pushed 55TB of additional updated map data and new imagery into Virtual Earth (and Live Search Maps, of course). Another massive release…they just keep coming, don’t they?
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Do you wish there was a new version of MapPoint? Well, even though MapPoint is no longer available, we have a number of partners that can help you move to an alternative.
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The Microsoft Research team responsible for WorldWide Telescope has just pushed out another update (v 2.2.41.1). Code named "Solstice Borealis" the new release includes a couple sweet and mind boggling features.
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Some may be thinking Public Enemy prophets with their song "Burn Hollywood Burn" after seeing some of the destruction in Southern California.
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With the Virtual Earth Web Service not only can you get static maps via the Imagery Service, but you can add some of the default pushpins you see in Live Search Maps to the static map that is returned to you if you set the Pushpins as a part of the request.
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Argentina is now live on Virtual Earth! Thiscomes with geocoding places and addresses, road maps, satellite imagery and photography and traffic incident and flow information.
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The most basic element of Virtual Earth – maps. The Bing Maps Web control is pretty simple because you could just copy and paste code into notepad, save it and run it in a browser.
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