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Microsoft MVP, Daisuke Yamazaki specializes in Bing Maps and evangelizes mapping inside and outside of the classroom. As Associate Professor teaching web technologies at Digital Hollywood Graduate School, Yamazaki has built a website for students that publicly offers anyone the resources and tools to easily get started with Bing Maps – BingMaps Go!
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This summer we announced the ability to customize Bing itineraries to make them your own, but we know that sometimes it’s nice to start from a clean slate when planning the perfect trip. Now you can!
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The Bing Maps team was in Orlando, Florida, September 24th through the 28th for Microsoft Ignite 2018. If you were not able to attend the event, the session recordings are now available for viewing on https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/videos.
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The Bing Maps team will be at Microsoft Ignite 2018, in Orlando, Florida, September 24th through the 28th. If you are registered for the event, stop by the Bing Maps APIs for Enterprise booth in the Modern Workplace area of the Expo, to learn more about the latest features and updates to our Bing Maps platform, as well as attend our sessions.
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Bing Maps is pleased to announce the general availability of our new Time Zone API. The Bing Maps Time Zone API is a collection of five easy to use REST APIs that are designed to make it easy for developers to work with time zones. 
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The Bing Maps team was in Las Vegas, Nevada July 15th through the 18th, for Microsoft Inspire 2018. If you were not able to attend, the sessions are now available for viewing on the Microsoft Partner Network.
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We are announcing the addition of real-time transit trip updates to the CalcRoute API. Real-time transit data is made available by a limited set of transit agencies who provide their data in real-time format. We have coverage provided by 100 agencies in metro areas across the world including New York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Toronto, Houston, and Baltimore. Currently, the 4 markets where coverage exists are the United States, Canada...
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Introducing the Bing Maps Autosuggest API, the newest addition to the Bing Maps REST services. The Autosuggest API is used to return a ranked list of suggested entities based on a user's partial query. The service can return three possible entity types: Addresses (including roads), points of interest, and businesses (currently available in the US only with new markets coming soon).
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Earlier this year we introduced itineraries on Bing Maps for popular travel destinations (only available for US and UK users at this time).  We are excited to announce that you can now customize these itineraries to make them your own.
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A powerful addition to the Bing Maps routing API is now available! With waypoint optimization you can pass in up to 25 waypoints (stops) and they will be re-ordered and optimized to minimize travel time or distance.
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