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Bing Maps SDKs for Windows Store Apps Now Available

Posted 7 months ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 16
Today we are announcing the availability of the Bing Maps SDKs for Windows Store apps . These SDKs will allow you to bring the power of Bing Maps to your Windows Store apps with support for C#, C++, Visual Basic and JavaScript based applications. Please...
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“Carmaggedon II”: Bing Maps is Your Ben Affleck

Posted 7 months ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 2
I was pinged late yesterday by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority about this whole “ Carmaggedon ” nightmare going on in LA this weekend. Being a SoCal native, I empathized with just how horrible this is going to...
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MapPoint 2013 Released!

Posted 9 months ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 2
The North American version of Microsoft MapPoint 2013 has officially released! There are a bunch of new features and a full UX update. Check out the details from our Marketing team below. Or, if you know how awesome MapPoint is and just can’t wait...
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Bing Maps Spatial Data Service Infrastructural Update

Posted 9 months ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 2
Today, I’m happy to announce the completed release of a major architectural improvement to our Bing Maps Spatial Data Service (SDS). SDS has been running for about 18 months and was intended to replace some of our legacy batch geocoding and customer...
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Let The Games Begin

Posted 9 months ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 5
Looking to stay abreast of the Summer Games 2012? Bing has you covered! Start with the Bing homepage for daily highlights, news, events and more. Interested in stats and schedules? In a few keystrokes you can get the information you’re looking for...
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Expanded UK Transit Directions

Posted 9 months ago

by Chris Pendleton
For Bing Maps users in the UK, and those travelling in and around London for the games we are pleased to announce the availability of expanded coverage for transit directions. In partnership with TheTrainline.com we have added routes from thirty one train...
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Changes to Bing Maps Keys

Posted 9 months ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 7
This week we’re simplifying the way developers and customers choose Bing Maps Keys for their respective mapping applications. We’re changing from the deep single list of keys to a matrix of keys and application types. Moving forward you will...
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Bing Venue Maps Goes International Adding Thousands of Shopping Malls

Posted 10 months ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 6
Whether you live in Poland or Spain, Russia or Belgium, or pretty much anywhere in-between, you will now be able to explore your local shopping mall through Bing maps - helping you locate the stores you are looking for, find the closest services and facilities...
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Reducing the Complexity of Rendering Shapes

Posted over 1 year ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 2
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...
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New Bing Maps Features Help You Feel Spatial…<3

Posted over 1 year ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 1
Coming back after the holiday season with a lot of energy, the Bing Maps team kicked off 2012 with releases of a new routing engine and the WPF control . Today--only 2 weeks later--we are now announcing several new features in the Bing Spatial Data Services...
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Announcing the Bing Maps Windows Presentation Foundation Control v1

Posted over 1 year ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 8
Back in August, I announced the Beta for our Bing Maps WPF control . The uptake in the Microsoft Developer Community has been stellar and the feedback – immensely helpful. As a result and as promised to those across the Microsoft Developer Network...
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Bing Maps New Routing Engine

Posted over 1 year ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 9
Did you happen to notice the new routing engine we implemented on Bing Maps? No? I suppose that’s a good thing since your service was never interrupted. However, I can tell you that we’re enjoying the reduced latency, high performance, low overhead benefits...
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Announcing the Bing Maps WPF Control

Posted over 1 year ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 11
Since rejoining the Bing Maps team, I’ve been heads down focusing on the developer experience for Bing Maps. As a result, we’re releasing the Bing Maps WPF Control Beta on the Microsoft Download Center . What is WPF? The Windows Presentation...
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A New Streetside View

Posted over 1 year ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 3
If you take a look at a Bing map in Streetside view today you will notice that we’ve made a lot of changes. These changes represent a significant enhancement for desktop browsers, enabling you to quickly pan up and down the street to see the neighborhood...
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Sound Transit: Riding the Bing Maps Wave

Posted over 2 years ago

by Chris Pendleton
Sound Transit has launched their new public transit system featuring Bing Maps and leveraging their repository of public transit information to create a trip planner for Seattleites to get around town. The application allows users to put in origin and...
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Read / Write World

Posted over 2 years ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 5
Today, at the Where 2.0 Conference in San Jose, CA, Microsoft Distinguished Engineer (and Bing Maps and Mobile Architect) Blaise Aguera y Arcas demonstrated Microsoft’s future vision of mapping and visualization called Read / Write World . The experience...
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Steeler Nation Comes Together on Bing Maps

Posted over 2 years ago

by Chris Pendleton
I was reading Fox Sports this morning and noticed that the Pittsburgh Steelers are ranked number 1 in the Power Rankings as we enter the 4th week of the NFL season (and my lowly Chargers are off to another slow start ranked 18, ugh). And, with the Steelers...
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Intermingle Location Data with Geo Fact Finder

Posted over 2 years ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 4
Those guys at Urban Mapping, famous in our industry for some of the best neighborhood boundary data, are doing more than just polygons these days. They’ve created Geo Fact Finder which had the original intention of illustrating the capabilities of their...
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End of an Era…and, Beginning Anew

Posted over 2 years ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 9
You may have noticed we’ve added a couple new bloggers to the Bing Maps Blog . Well, I say that loosely because Johannes Kebeck has been a blogger extraordinaire on his Windows Live Spaces blog which has done quite well, but has decided to start posting...
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Introducing PHP and VB .NET SDKs for Bing Maps Platform

Posted over 2 years ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 1
Over the years we’ve provided developers with tons of code samples, SDKs, interactive SDKs, external SDKs, etc., etc. Today, we’re adding to an already loaded artillery of Bing Maps SDKs by providing a new SDK for PHP developers who want to...
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And, The King of Bing Maps is…

Posted over 2 years ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 3
After the judges deliberated the winners were selected. This was so big, we did a video on MSDN's Channel 9 . The King of Bing Maps is…Ricky Brundritt, Taxi Fare Calculator The Grand Prize-winning Map App helps locals and travelers alike...
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Facebook Places Launches with Bing’d Out Maps

Posted over 2 years ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 7
After listening to the rumor mills roar and authoring hundreds of emails with my friends at Facebook it can finally be said that Facebook has launched their location-based check-in service dubbed Facebook Places. And, while location-based services like...
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XBox Live for Windows Phone 7 Will Feature Bing Maps

Posted over 2 years ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 3
With the impending release of Windows Phone 7, I’ve been working with both the Windows Phone and XNA teams on creating experiences that will involve Bing Maps. As a preview, Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst is the first game to be shown and announced...
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Windows Live Essential Adds Geotagging with Bing Maps

Posted over 2 years ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 4
With today’s release of Windows Live Essentials Beta , one of the new features relevant to us here in the Bing Maps team is within the Windows Live Photo Gallery application in a function called geotagging. For those of you not familiar with the...
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New Bing Map App: Coin Search

Posted over 2 years ago

by Chris Pendleton
- 3
“Find a penny, pick it up and all day long you’ll have good luck.” If you believe this to be true, you may want to go buy some Lotto tickets today. The latest Bing Map App in the gallery, Coin Search , lets us explore Bing Maps in Streetside...

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