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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The Live Maps team has released an updated version of their consumer site, as well as (for all your Virtual Earth platform lovers out there), an API for accessing map tiles of India in your applications via REST or and of our Microsoft Maps Controls (Windows, Web, iOS & Android). Check out the list of new features and data updates. 
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I’ve received a few inquiries about how to geocode with Virtual Earth and it is the first step in being able to visualize data at a location.
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