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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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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Today, LinkedIn introduced a new, helpful feature to their many users – “Your Commute.” LinkedIn has been working with the Bing Maps Platform team to add this valuable new feature to their mobile experience– see what the commute time is for a selected job posting.
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Recently, Microsoft Real Estate and Facilities (RE&F) worked with a Microsoft subsidiary to use Bing Maps Distance Matrix API as a specialty tool to perform quick commute analysis to determine the single best location for centering their operations from multiple offices in a metro area to a single office location. See how Bing Maps Distance Matrix API helps a customer solve a business problem related to real estate site planning and commute...
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Cesium, a platform for developers to build web-based 3D map apps, uses Bing Maps imagery to help power their services. Started in 2011, when WebGL was first released, as a lightweight web-based 3D virtual globe engine for the aerospace and defense market, Cesium is now used across many markets from autonomous driving to drones to augmented reality.
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When US-based OnTerra Systems first set out to develop new route planning software for small to mid-sized fleets back in 2010, a significant array of Bing Maps advantages led OnTerra Systems management to use Bing Maps as the platform for RouteSavvy.
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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. With this feature customers can define a strict set of Referrer values or IP address ranges that the key will be validated against.
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We are excited to announce the private preview release of two new Bing Maps APIs – Bing Maps Location Recognition API and Bing Maps Autosuggest API. Bing Maps Location Recognition API and the Bing Maps Autosuggest API will be generally available this summer.
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This week, the Bing Maps team will be in sunny California at the NAFA 2018 Institute & Expo, known as the largest event for fleet professionals. We will share our latest developments for the industry – a collection of powerful Fleet Management APIs that include Truck Routing, Isochrone, Distance Matrix and Snap to Road.
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