Bing Maps Gets a Major Makeover; Silverlight Control 1.0 Released

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

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There are some big changes happening at Bing Maps, both on the user end and the developer end.

On Bing.com/maps, you can check out the following updates:

* Draggable Routes
* Zoom Bar with predefined settings
* Command Parsing
* Embed a Map
* Dynamic Compute
* New Navigation
* World Wrap (no longer stops at International Date Line)
* Diet Bing Maps – loads faster due to lighter load



Meanwhile, Bing Maps Silverlight Control 1.0 has been released. This allows developers to incorporate Bing Maps into their applications. There are a ton of updates, too many to mention in this post, so be sure to check them out here if you’re a developer.

The terms of use have changed, allowing educators and tax-exempt non-profits to use Bing Maps on their sites for free.

There are also the following updates to the terms of use, per the Bing Maps blog:

* Bing Maps AJAX Control – all maps rendered onto the client upon the initial request is considered 1 session. Session includes any requests for geocoding, routing or search.
* Bing Maps Silverlight Control – all maps rendered onto the client upon the initial request is considered 1 session. There are no services built into the Bing Maps Silverlight Control, so you would use the Bing Maps Web Service for geocoding, routing and search, but we’ll include those too.
* Bing Maps Web Service – all maps, geocodes, routes and searches will each invoke 1 transaction.

Nihaar Gujjar

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