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Based in British Columbia, CAMS Software is a small transportation management software company with big customers. The company’s flagship transportation management solution, Prospero, is used by the majority of major grocery chains in North America, including industry giants. CAMS Software switched from its old maps provider to Bing Maps to simplify customer interactions, reduce operating costs, and gain efficiency and a competitive edge.
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If you're a developer you probably read through a lot of documentation, forums and discussions to find solutions to your coding questions, learn new programming languages or master new tools. It always takes a great deal of time and energy to read through the many long threads discussing similar problems and potential solutions before finally finding that one answer. Many of us...
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As announced on May 24, the Bing Maps Developer portal shipped a new feature allowing you to restrict access on your Bing Maps API keys to a set of domains that you specify. Starting today, wildcard is now supported for referrer security whitelist setting
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Bing has made very significant investments in the area of deep learning, computer vision and artificial intelligence to support a number of different search scenarios. The Bing Maps team has been applying these techniques as well with the goal to increase the coverage of building footprints available for OpenStreetMap.
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The Bing APIs team will be at Microsoft Inspire 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada, July 15 through the 18th. If you are registered for the event, stop by the Cognitive Services - Bing Search APIs booth in the Data & AI area to learn more about the new features and enhancements we’ve made to our Bing Search APIs platform:
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Today we're launching new Visual Search capabilities that build upon the visual technology already in Bing so you can search the web using your camera. Now you can search, shop, and learn more about your world through the photos you take.
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The Bing Maps team will be at Microsoft Inspire 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada, July 15 through the 18th. If you are registered for the event, stop by the Bing Maps booth, as well as attend our sessions.
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Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability release of the Bing Maps Location Recognition API that we previewed in last month’s blog post. Supercharge your applications to provide users with more context about what is nearby. Given a location (latitude, longitude) the Bing Maps Location Recognition API returns a list of entities at the location.
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At Bing, AI is the foundation of our services and experiences. If you have ever been involved in any machine learning or AI project you know that frequently the key to success is good training data (a set of labeled examples that helps train the algorithm). Getting enough high-quality training data is often the most challenging piece of building an AI-based service. Typically, data labeled by humans is of high quality (has relatively few mistakes)...
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This week Microsoft is integrating its Streetside imagery for the United States in to iD, a popular web-based editor for contributing to OpenStreetMap. This is the same imagery currently visible on Bing Maps now embedded in to a popular editing application initially developed and now maintained by Mapbox.
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