Maps Blog - Page 39

  • Live Maps India v2 Released (with an API)

    The Live Maps team has released an updated version of their consumer site, as well as (for all your Virtual Earth platform lovers out there), an API for accessing map tiles of India in your applications via REST or and of our Microsoft Maps Controls (Windows, Web, iOS & Android). Check out the list of new features and data updates. 
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  • Routing in Virtual Earth Web Service

    I’ve been working on this one for a while and it kind of completes the basics for getting started with the Virtual Earth Web Service. The Routing Service in Bing Maps allows for route calculation and itinerary creation.  The following will get you started using the routing service. 
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  • Virtual Earth 3D Installs with Windows

    Windows Maps App supercedes the previous stad alone installs of Virtual Earcth and Microsoft Maps for Windows. You can find it by searching for Maps in either the Windows Search box or the Windows App Store.
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  • Live Search for Mobile Updated

    The Live Search team has published a significant update to their Bing Search Mobile client application which leverages Microsoft Virtual Earth & Bing Maps quite heavily. 
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  • Use GPS & Web Maps For Location-Aware Apps

    Christopher Mitchell may have authored the article "Use GPS And Web Maps For Location-Aware Apps" for MSDN Magazine and it’s was published on the site, but now it is pretty obsolete. In it's stead, I'd like to point you to the latest SDKs we have available for Windows, iOS and Android devices!
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  • Live Maps Finland Hits the Web

    The team in Finland has take advantage of recent improvements Virtual Earth and to create Live Maps Finland. How about an Finnish language lesson while we go over features, hmm?
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  • WorldWide Telescope - Solstice Borealis Release

    The Microsoft Research team responsible for WorldWide Telescope has just pushed out another update (v 2.2.41.1). Code named "Solstice Borealis" the new release includes a couple sweet and mind boggling features.
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