Blogs

The Bing Maps Routing and Traffic Team is constantly working to make navigation and route planning easier! Hot on the heels of our previous announcement about traffic coloring, the Bing Maps team is proud to announce that we have made it possible for users to access traffic camera images along a planned driving route!
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Say hello to Maps SDK, a Microsoft Garage project! This latest release brings all the cool things about 3D maps to Unity developers. As a map control for Unity, Maps SDK makes it possible to fold Bing Maps’ 3D world data into Unity-based, mixed reality experiences.
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Microsoft Build 2019 is taking place in Seattle, Washington, May 6 to May 8, and the Bing Search APIs team will be there. If you are registered for the event, stop by the Bing Search APIs booth to check out the rich web search API solutions available, all powered by Bing.
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Get a first-hand look at the latest tools and new features from the Bing Maps team! We are looking forward to meeting you at Microsoft Build 2019 (May 6th through the 8th, at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle Washington).
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One of the many challenges faced by the mapping the world is the availability of ground truth. Today most mappers remotely map an area. Even with the variety of aerial imagery available, the details or perspective of the area being mapped can be lacking. To provide mappers with the most information possible, the Microsoft Open Maps team has created a JOSM plugin.
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Nothing is more important than your reputation. The reputation of a business or organization is built from several factors—search results, social media mentions, and customer reviews. Bing News Search can serve as a powerful data provider to help you track and manage public sentiment about you, an organization, or a brand
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There is an old saying that you don’t know where you are going until you get there. With Bing Maps new route coloring feature, you will know right away where the delays will be along your selected route so you can change your route, your plans or your destination based on the route ahead!
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At NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference this week, Bing demonstrated natural sounding text-to-speech AI, expanded intelligent answers, and the ability to quickly see multiple objects auto-detected within an image to search for visual matches.
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Tablets are an important part of the Bing success story, with many users looking for the latest news, checking out sport scores and searching for entertainment. To better optimize for such user intent across devices of varying screens sizes and aspect ratios while providing fluid and aesthetically pleasing experience we at Microsoft completely redesigned the Bing homepage on Amazon Fire tablets using React + Redux.
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The Bing Maps Team collaborated with Statistics Canada to deliver these 12 million building footprints, released as Open Data!
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