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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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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