Live Maps Belgium hit the web today as the next country in a wave of localized mapping sites built integrating local knowledge, local listing providers and the Microsoft Virtual Earth API. Belgium has an diverse audience, so leveraging this knowledge the local team built out both Live Maps Belgium in French and Live Maps Belgium in Flemish. 
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The engine has been churning for a few months and we’ve finally pumped out another imagery release – a massive 37TB of data 
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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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Our good friends in the Windows Team have provided a sample for the latest versions of Windows at Windows-universal-samples/Samples/MapControl at main · microsoft/Windows-universal-samples · GitHub
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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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I’ve had a couple inquiries about heat maps of late, so wanted to ensure people are aware of the capabilities enabled and resources available for creating heat maps with Virtual Earth.Check out some of our great samples at Samples.BingMapsPortal.com
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With the Virtual Earth Web Service not only can you get static maps via the Imagery Service, but you can add some of the default pushpins you see in Live Search Maps to the static map that is returned to you if you set the Pushpins as a part of the request.
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There’s a new initiative at Microsoft to bring together different parts of the company under a single umbrella to prove the whole is greater than the sum of all it’s parts. The Public Sector initiative, dubbed "The Single View Platform" brings several different Microsoft products together to form a SUPER geographically-based, data visualization product suite. 
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Argentina is now live on Virtual Earth!  Thiscomes with geocoding places and addresses, road maps, satellite imagery and photography and traffic incident and flow information.
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U-Haul just made the move from MapQuest to Virtual Earth. Actually, U-Haul has been a long-standing MapPoint Web Service customer for several applications and they’ve decided to move over their Location Finder over to Virtual Earth!
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