The holiday season has come and NORAD is set to track Santa’s travels around the globe with a little help from Microsoft and other great partners. Find out the latest at NORADSanta.ORG!
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Bing Maps API comes equipped with offline maps integration for Windows apps, including both 2D and 3D maps. Here’s how you can build your own offline app!
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Edgar Simões, an Economist, was inspired to help Ukrainian refugees resettling in Portugal and knew he needed a live interactive map. Despite not having a developer background, Edgar leveraged power pages within Microsoft’s Power Platform, including Bing Maps, to build Ukraine Live Aid, a website with an interactive map showing donation sites around the country.
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Wondering how to make a 3D map mixed reality experience in Unity? The Microsoft Garage Project Maps SDK project is a great place to start! 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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From time to time I come across developers who want to have an auto suggest search box to use with their map. Your first thought might be to simply use the Bing Maps geocoding services to do this, however this often ends up generating a large number of transactions.The Bing Maps V8 Web control now has Autosuggest built right in and is included with the control itself, avoiding extra transactions you might get from other service options.
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You can "Claim your Business" at Bing Places (BingPlaces.com) and once complete, they will apear on Bing Maps
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Don’t like JavaScript? You want your managed code with the new wave of Microsoft maps?
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A couple days ago, CNN was broadcasting news about the horrific weather in the Midwest. Well, it turns out they have a new option for illustrating their news stories with maps and imagery – Microsoft Virtual Earth.
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We’ve just published “Integrating Virtual Earth Maps and Excel 2007 Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition” on MSDN
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I get asked by developers a lot about how they can leverage the nifty drawing tools that are on Microsoft Maps. Well, you can try them yourself at https://samples.bingmapsportal.com/?search=drawing
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