Bing Maps General announcement
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Link
The Reverse Geocoder team is pleased to announce the general availability of Bing Maps Time Zone API!
Unlike other Time Zone APIs, that only work with a location coordinate (lat, long), the Bing Maps Time Zone API allows developers to directly pass their location names and the service returns the relevant timezone(s).
For more info please check out:
- The blog post announcing the Time Zone API, it calls out main features with examples.
- The MSDN link for complete reference.
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Link
Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability release of the Bing Maps Location Recognition API that we previewed in last month’s blog post. Supercharge your applications to provide users with more context about what is nearby. Given a location (latitude, longitude) the Bing Maps Location Recognition API returns a list of entities at the location. The different components of the API response provide a comprehensive description of the location. The API response consists of:
- Business entities situated at the location. A wide variety of entity types are supported (e.g. restaurants, hotels, parks, gym, shopping malls and more).
- Natural entities at the location (e.g. beaches, island, lakes and 9 other types).
- Reverse geocoded address of the input location, with neighborhood and street intersection information where available.
- Type of property (e.g. residential, commercial) situated at the location.
For more details on the entities returned please see the Bing Maps Location Recognition Entity Types documentation.
The Bing Maps Location Recognition API is a high-powered reverse geocoding service that is great for use cases where you want to provide users with insightful details about what is at or near a specified lat/long. The Bing Maps Location Recognition API helps answer questions such as what are the businesses and points of interest near a real estate property that I am interested in buying? What is the address associated with a given lat/long? Is it a private residence? What neighborhood am I in?Get Started:
We encourage you to try the Bing Maps Location Recognition API using your Bing Maps API key and explore the useful location data it provides for use in your applications.
For more information about the Bing Maps Platform, how to get licensed, and frequently asked questions, visit our website.- Bing Maps Team
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Bird's Eye View Different Angles Don't Work
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Please update your mapping service - ramp configuration change in Beloit, Wisconsin
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MapPolygon - Can it be used in 3D like MapPolyline?
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Using PowerMap on Schedule Board
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Use Snap To Road API from Truck Route API response.
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Spider Cluster file contain so many error
Hi, we are creating one sample control for spider Cluster using below ...Unanswered | 1 Replies | 180 Views | Created by vikas dugi - Thursday, November 14, 2019 1:00 PM | Last reply by IoTGirl - Friday, November 15, 2019 7:12 PM -
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Random Transparency on Tile Layers
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Directions.Waypoint Options -- Use Custom Pushpin
Is there any way to customize the waypoint object in the DirectionsManager object in Bing Maps Version 8? I've tried providing an SVG item for the pushpin in the ...Answered | 4 Replies | 548 Views | Created by vkman - Wednesday, August 24, 2016 7:07 PM | Last reply by Rob111111112222 - Thursday, November 14, 2019 4:04 PM -
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Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Maps.MapControl.WPF
So I'm currently making a plugin for Revit (BIM/CAD software used in construction), where I'm trying to get the Bing Maps API to work in my WPF window (a window that opens when you open my plugin in ...Unanswered | 2 Replies | 158 Views | Created by Zethery - Wednesday, November 13, 2019 8:54 PM | Last reply by Duncan Lawler - Wednesday, November 13, 2019 11:21 PM -
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Is it possible show just tiles?
Hi all, I'm doing a little development with Bing Maps in a WPF app. I've the maps and my owm tiles and I'd like just show the tiles, no the maps from Bing. My idea is use the ...Proposed | 2 Replies | 169 Views | Created by Manu_GS - Monday, November 11, 2019 5:10 PM | Last reply by Duncan Lawler - Monday, November 11, 2019 7:28 PM -
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Bing Maps Key Security?
We're setting up an example and trying to limit it by referrer. We've created a key and put a referrer of domain.com and then tried to access it as subdomain.domain.com/bing.html using OpenLayers demo ...Unanswered | 1 Replies | 165 Views | Created by iGIS Team - Monday, November 11, 2019 1:26 PM | Last reply by IoTGirl - Monday, November 11, 2019 4:31 PM -
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Not Getting all info in response
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Get Session Key via HTTPS query?
Is it possible to get a session key via an HTTPS query? I am using the maps API to look up distances between several locations in Excel worksheet functions. Each cell initiates a ...Unanswered | 1 Replies | 176 Views | Created by Joe Gantt - Wednesday, November 6, 2019 3:04 AM | Last reply by IoTGirl - Wednesday, November 6, 2019 4:16 AM -
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Bug in MapLocationFinder.FindLocationsAtAsync
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Need a sample to build a normal custom HTML InfoBox.
There is a sample here to show us how to build a custom HTML InfoBox. But it is not a "normal" InfoBox. A "normal" InfoBox should look like ...Unanswered | 4 Replies | 229 Views | Created by Jim King 2000 - Tuesday, October 29, 2019 2:54 AM | Last reply by Jim King 2000 - Friday, November 1, 2019 2:23 AM -
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Multi-Itinerary Optimization (MIO) API - type and roadnetwork parameters
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Pass to Bing Maps V8 a lot of points from SQL Server 2012/2017
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Bing Geocoding for cross street
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Report bug: map.setView({ labelOverlay: Microsoft.Maps.LabelOverlay.hidden }) does not take effect immediately.
When I call map.setView({ labelOverlay: Microsoft.Maps.LabelOverlay.hidden }) , the labels on the map does NOT disappear immediately. It will disappear when I zoom or pan the ...Answered | 7 Replies | 358 Views | Created by Jim King 2000 - Saturday, October 26, 2019 3:29 AM | Last reply by IoTGirl - Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:57 PM
Bing Maps General announcement
-
Link
The Reverse Geocoder team is pleased to announce the general availability of Bing Maps Time Zone API!
Unlike other Time Zone APIs, that only work with a location coordinate (lat, long), the Bing Maps Time Zone API allows developers to directly pass their location names and the service returns the relevant timezone(s).
For more info please check out:
- The blog post announcing the Time Zone API, it calls out main features with examples.
- The MSDN link for complete reference.
-
Link
Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability release of the Bing Maps Location Recognition API that we previewed in last month’s blog post. Supercharge your applications to provide users with more context about what is nearby. Given a location (latitude, longitude) the Bing Maps Location Recognition API returns a list of entities at the location. The different components of the API response provide a comprehensive description of the location. The API response consists of:
- Business entities situated at the location. A wide variety of entity types are supported (e.g. restaurants, hotels, parks, gym, shopping malls and more).
- Natural entities at the location (e.g. beaches, island, lakes and 9 other types).
- Reverse geocoded address of the input location, with neighborhood and street intersection information where available.
- Type of property (e.g. residential, commercial) situated at the location.
For more details on the entities returned please see the Bing Maps Location Recognition Entity Types documentation.
The Bing Maps Location Recognition API is a high-powered reverse geocoding service that is great for use cases where you want to provide users with insightful details about what is at or near a specified lat/long. The Bing Maps Location Recognition API helps answer questions such as what are the businesses and points of interest near a real estate property that I am interested in buying? What is the address associated with a given lat/long? Is it a private residence? What neighborhood am I in?Get Started:
We encourage you to try the Bing Maps Location Recognition API using your Bing Maps API key and explore the useful location data it provides for use in your applications.
For more information about the Bing Maps Platform, how to get licensed, and frequently asked questions, visit our website.- Bing Maps Team