Blogs

This latest imagery release includes 297,000 square kilometers in Italy and 38,000 square kilometers in Switzerland.
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The Bing Maps team has been working hard on adding features and functionalities to the Bing Maps Version 8 web control (V8). With each feature the team creates they also create several code samples to thoroughly test it. Find these and many more samples on GitHub.
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We are happy to announce that we have published another imagery update for Canada. This latest update covers 2.1 million square kilometers of western Canada, pushing the total area delivered for Canada to 5.1 million square kilometers.
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SpeedLine Solutions, developer of restaurant point of sale and enterprise management software, uses Bing Maps to power their visual dispatch system SpeedLine LiveMaps. Delivery performance is tightly coupled with a restaurant’s profit margin, and SpeedLine LiveMaps utilizes capabilities such as real-time traffic data, routing and visual analytics to help their clients increase operational efficiency and profitability.
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We are excited to announce the release of new imagery for Canada. The area covered in this latest update is 3 million square kilometers of eastern Canada. Included are just a few examples of some of the sights in our imagery update.
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While creating the code samples for the Bing Maps V8 web control, we wanted to make the samples more realistic and use real data. As such, many of the Bing Maps V8 interactive code samples use data from a number of sources such as earthquake data from the USGS, satellite imagery of hurricanes from NASA, weather radar data from Iowa State University, and 2010 US Census data from the US Census Bureau.
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The Bing Maps team is happy to announce the real-time traffic flow data is now available in 55 countries. Bing Maps uses traffic flow data in two ways. The first is to provide real-time and predictive route calculations. The second method is a traffic overlay of color coded roads on the map to indicate the real-time flow of traffic.
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We are pleased to announce the release of fresh imagery in Australia and India for Bing Maps. This latest imagery release includes 7,685,768 square kilometers in Australia, which covers the entire country with all of the major cities and areas outside of those cities. Also, the entire country of India is covered with the total square area of imagery being 3,119,733 square kilometers.
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We are excited to announce that we have launched over 8.5 million square kilometers of fresh imagery for Brazil on Bing Maps. This imagery release covers the total area of Brazil, including land and water. With stunning imagery of shores like those in Copacabana, you can just feel the ocean breeze on your face. Below is an aerial image of the Copacabana that has one of the most iconic beaches in the world. All year round people relax along the 4...
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The main release branch of the Bing Maps Version 8 web control (V8) has been in a code freeze over the last two months for the holiday season. Over this time the Bing Maps team focused primarily on bug fixes and performance improvements in Bing Maps V8. Here are some of the more notable new features added in this release.
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