Last week when we announced our increased engagement with the open mapping community. We mentioned that Bing Maps would be donating some of its imagery to OpenStreetMap (OSM) for their community to use.
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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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Inefficient driving routes between multiple waypoints waste time, money, and wear on people’s patience. Beginning today, Bing has set out to help reduce the stress and wasted time caused by inefficient driving routes with the launch of the “RouteSavvy” app in Bing Maps. With this route optimization from OnTerra, people can enter up to 100 addresses into Bing Maps and receive the optimal route between their destinations.
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This week, a Bing Maps mash-up developed by ShootHill was launched on UNCHR.org to show geographical information on refugees, refugee assistance offices, and refugee-related stories from around the globe. Since 1950, “UNHCR has protected refugees and other uprooted and stateless people worldwide
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Today it’s my turn to follow up with news of more goodness from Bing – new routing and geocoding features for Bing Maps REST Services
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,I’d like to highlight HeyGov!, a solution that uses MapDotNet, Bing Maps, and Azure to communicate and manage 311 issues for governments and citizens. Earlier this year, ISC won a Windows Azure contest for the best US Public Sector Application and used the winning application as the foundation for HeyGov!.
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Commuters rejoice! Today Bing Maps added transit routing to its directions options. So, for those of you who like to take the bus, subway, or local rail you now can turn to Bing Maps. This is a very important feature for us as public transit grows in popularity and coverage.
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A while ago Chris Pendleton had blogged about Bing Maps for WordPress. In his post he described a plugin that was developed by Rich Gubby using the Bing Maps Web Control. Just yesterday I discovered now another Bing Maps plugin for WordPress developed by Regart.net. You can download the plugin directly from the WordPress Plugin Directory.
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Over the years we’ve provided developers with tons of code samples, SDKs, interactive SDKs, external SDKs, etc., etc. Today, we’re adding to an already loaded artillery of Bing Maps SDKs by providing a new SDK for PHP developers who want to use our REST, SOAP and Spatial Data APIs.
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If you are using the web-client of Hotmail or Office Live you may already have discovered it: Hotmail integrates now with Bing Maps. When you create a new email, you can now insert various types of content from Bing, including Bing Maps:
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