The Azure Maps team just announced an update to the Web Map Control in this blog post. Some of the key improvements added to this update include: Developer focused API improvements – modernized the API interface to make it easier to understand and use. New data source and layering model – separated data management from…
Geocoding and Routing are core services in mapping platforms. Today, the Bing Maps team is happy to announce improved algorithms and increased coverage support for these services, which also directly improve the coverage of many of the new Bing Maps Fleet Management APIs, such as the Isochrone and Distance Matrix APIs which rely on routing…
The Bing Maps team just announced three new fleet management API’s; Truck Routing, Isochrones, and Snap to Road. This is in addition to the Distance Matrix API they released in October. Read the full announcement on the Bing Maps blog here: https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2017-12/bing-maps-launches-three-new-fleet-management-apis
The Bing Maps V8 Web Control has been updated in November with one key feature which lets you provide your Bing Maps key as a URL parameter of the map script URL rather than as a map option when loading the map. This provides two key benefits: Load multiple map instances under a single session…
In this update to the Bing Maps V8 Web Control, we have added several smaller but highly requested features. Bird’s Eye map type now in dropdown Bird’s eye imagery has been available in the Bing Maps V8 Web Control since May, but it could only be displayed programmatically. Now Bird’s eye is available in the…
Earlier this year we released the Bing Maps .NET REST Toolkit as an open source project on Github. Since then we have seen had a lot of positive feedback from developers and are seeing over 200M requests made each month to the REST services with this toolkit. Today we would like to announce the release…
GeoJSON is a common file format used for storing spatial data as a JSON object and is easy to import and export in Bing Maps V8 using the GeoJSON module. This file format tends to be more compact then its XML equivalents. This results in a much smaller file size, making it ideal for transferring…
