That’s right! Last night on the season premiere of the Amazing Race, Bing Maps was there! Using the visual experience engine from Microsoft which powered the WordWide Telescope (WWT) and Bing Maps, viewers could visualize the contestants’ route.
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What do pistachios, Türkiye, and travel have in common? In a recent post on the New York Times’ Frugal Traveler blog, we learn that a city called Gaziantep located in southeastern Turkey is the self-proclaimed pistachio capital, and apparently a trip there is lovely and quite affordable. Want to find out more? Visit the Bing Maps site.
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Need to calculate routes with more than 25 waypoints when using our Web control? “King of Bing” Ricky Brundritt has created a module to do just that! Check out his blog post for more information. Thanks Ricky, another great module for the web! What module are you building? What would you like to build? Let us know!
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Since rejoining the Bing Maps team, I’ve been heads down focusing on the developer experience for Bing Maps. What is WPF? The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides developers with a unified programming model for building rich Windows smart client user experiences that incorporate UI, media, and documents.
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Today we are announcing the number of updates that have been made to the Bing Maps Account Center, Bing Maps REST Services and the Bing Maps MSDN documentation. Bing Maps Account Center
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Today we are officially introducing three new modules and several new features for the Web map control. The new modules add some very handy features, and they really show off the dynamic module loading capabilities of the by adding functionality when you need it, and getting out of the way when you don’t.
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Bing.com/maps now partners with multiple Real Estate companies to bring you Real Estate expereinces, like searching for a new home to buy or rent, right on Bing Maps!
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Bing Maps developers from Earthware, OnTerra and Infusion will discuss Bing Maps’ latest features and development tips and tricks in a free webcast at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST on Tuesday, March 1.
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The Bing Maps REST Services has added a transit travel mode so you can get transit routes and even display a transit route on a static map in your application. All you need to know is where you want to go and what time of day and then the REST Services will return a transit route based on your request.
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Today we have the distinct pleasure of announcing the release of the new Bing Web map control v7 (V7). It seems to be the year of 7s at Microsoft and we’re excited to carry on the reputation that V7 does indeed denote something very special. Let’s start off with discussing V7 performance: – V7 is less than 1/3 the size of our v6.3 control.
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