In December 2007 we announced the launch of our Live Search Maps localization of world locations in Chinese including street level data for China. Today, we’ve added Live Search China results to include local links through to our Live Local Search using our localized Chinese maps. We have over 7 million local listings in 114 cities in China which we’ve indexed into and have directly accessible through Live Search. 
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We’ve launched our Live Search Maps site in Chinese! Not only that but we have street data for China! The first public release supports most basic map and local search features across China with details for 114 cities, plus a Public Transit feature for 11 cities, but without Driving Directions and Public Collections; we will enable Public Collections in the QFE, and add Driving Directions in a future release. Enjoy! 
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Today, we’re announcing our acquisition of Multimap. Multimap is one of the United Kingdom’s top 100 technology companies and leading online mapping services in the world. The acquisition gives Microsoft a powerful new location and mapping technology to complement existing offerings such as Virtual Earth, Live Search, Windows Live services and MSN.
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Ok imagery junkies, get ready to overdose…..33.7TB.3Di/Boulder hi-res Orthos/Aerial Imagery
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The folks at Starbucks just made it a whole lot easier to find their stores using Bing Maps Virtual Earth
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We recently launched a new case study (and yes, I’m a little slow getting this out) describing how Coldwell Banker was struggling with the lack of technological innovation around mapping and found Virtual Earth as an answer to their problems. 
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So, you want to know what kind of traffic your Virtual Earth application is getting? You want to start licensing Virtual Earth for your application?
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On October 23, 2007, at the annual Geoint 2007 Symposium, the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced that Microsoft Corporation has joined the consortium as a Principal Member. Government agencies worldwide are realizing the power of geospatial applications to meet their missions in ways that are unprecedented 
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Rachna posted a great blog entry for his web part using Virtual Earth. I get this request all the time, so I’m glad the MOSS team stepped up. Check out his blog entry here.  CP
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Another huge drop of data for your liking (38.1 TB). I love Whistler but I must admit I expected to see more snow!
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