One of the most common themes I hear about Bing Maps is that we don’t make it easy to render “GIS Stuff” via our APIs. In fact, one of the first features I spec’d when I moved to the Bing Maps team as a Lead PM was the ability to render holes in our polygons.
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By Ricky Brundritt, EMEA Bing Maps Technology Solution Professional The Bing Maps MSDN forums are one of the best places to ask a question if you need help developing with Bing Maps.
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As many developers using the Bing Maps Platform know, some Bing Maps API calls generate billable transactions while other Bing Maps API calls don’t. The Bing Maps Platform team has documented which Bing Maps API calls are billable vs. non-billable (and when)!
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By Ricky Brundritt, EMEA Bing Maps Technology Solution Professional In September of 2011 we started the Bing Maps v7 Module Code Project. The purpose of this project is to create a single place where developers can find and share useful modules that expand the functionality of the Bing Maps Web API.
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Need to calculate routes with more than 25 waypoints when using our Web control? “King of Bing” Ricky Brundritt has created a module to do just that! Check out his blog post for more information. Thanks Ricky, another great module for the web! What module are you building? What would you like to build? Let us know!
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Today we are officially introducing three new modules and several new features for the Web map control. The new modules add some very handy features, and they really show off the dynamic module loading capabilities of the by adding functionality when you need it, and getting out of the way when you don’t.
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Bing Maps developers from Earthware, OnTerra and Infusion recently discussed Bing Maps’ latest features and development tips and tricks.
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Last fall we released V7 of the Bing Maps Web control. This control is a complete redesign of the previous versions. This was done to make the map control smaller and faster. How much smaller and faster you ask? V7 is 1/3rd the size of V6.3 and renders up to 3x faster.
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A while ago Chris Pendleton had blogged about Bing Maps for WordPress. In his post he described a plugin that was developed by Rich Gubby using the Bing Maps Web Control. Just yesterday I discovered now another Bing Maps plugin for WordPress developed by Regart.net. You can download the plugin directly from the WordPress Plugin Directory.
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If you are using the web-client of Hotmail or Office Live you may already have discovered it: Hotmail integrates now with Bing Maps. When you create a new email, you can now insert various types of content from Bing, including Bing Maps:
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