Blogs

Finding your dream job can take effort, but LinkedIn has made it easier for its members. Factors around location can oftentimes be central to job selection. Learn how LinkedIn uses Bing Maps APIs to bring location intelligence to the job hunt.
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The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is preparing for their annual tradition of tracking Santa around the globe. As NORAD conducts its primary mission of defending Canadian and United States airspace, they take on the supplementary mission of tracking Santa's journey for the holidays
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After launching traffic camera imagery on Bing Maps in April, we have seen a lot of interest in this new feature. Based on the popularity of this feature, the Bing Maps Routing and Traffic team has made some further improvements to this routing experience.
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Imagine being able to navigate through your neighborhood using your hearing alone. With the help of Bing Maps Local Search and Location Recognition APIs, Microsoft Soundscape helps the blind and low vision explore the world around them using a map delivered in 3D sound.
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The Bing Maps team was in Orlando, Florida, November 4th through the 8th for Microsoft Ignite. If you were not able to attend the event, the session recordings are now available for viewing https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/.
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Seeingit.com is an interactive, self-serve publishing website empowering locals, businesses, and event coordinators to share info about community events and fun things to see and do. With its location-based capabilities powered by the Bing Maps Platform, Seeingit.com saves users from FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) with maps.
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Since our blog post in July highlighting new Bird’s Eye imagery, we’ve released more of our high resolution oblique 45-degree angle aerial Bird’s Eye imagery and just want to make sure you’re aware of this continued imagery expansion. The recent release of new Bird’s Eye over the last few months represents approximately 50,000 square kilometers of new Bird’s Eye imagery spanning 70 cities in the United States.
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The Bing Maps team is looking forward to seeing you at Microsoft Ignite 2019, in Orlando, Florida, November 4th through the 8th. If you are attending the event, we hope you will enjoy our sessions and stop by the Bing Maps for Enterprise booth in the Modern Workplace + Modern Life area of the Expo to learn more about the latest features and updates to our Bing Maps Platform.
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We are excited to announce that the preview is over and Bing Maps SDK for Android and iOS is ready for your production applications. Since preview started the team has added numerous features, increased loading performance by over 40%, and optimized the API structure and stability.
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The Maps SDK is a map control for Unity that allows us to utilize Bing Maps 3D Data in Unity-Based, mixed reality experiences. Here is a quick start guide on setting up the Maps SDK control and demoing the packaged samples.
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