Bing Maps got a new look and today as well as peformance enhancements and new features that include a new Silverlight Control, Draggable Routes, a new Zoom bar and other new navigation buttons, Command Parsing, Word Wrapping, and the ability to embed a Bing Map directly into your web site. For details on these new features and the performance enhancements, see Chris Pendleton's write-up. We also have an annoucement video that speaks to this release.
What I want to elaborate on are the changes to our terms of use. The new licensing now allows for free transactions for Education and non-profit organizations, and for small Web sites, including Goverment! The web sites must be public, non-password protected Web sites such as municipal portals. For details about the new terms of use, please visit our licensing page. Meanwihle, developers can find information about resources including a free developer account on the Bing Maps web site.
Go play!!
-= Virtual Jerry
I am confused. You say that it is now free for government, but if you click on the licensing page link you reference, it says nothing about it being free for government.
I understand your confusion. We will address the conten on the Licensing page. In the meantime, please refer to the terms of use found here: www.microsoft.com/.../terms.html