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Bing Maps API helped vaccinate the US with a powerful COVID-19 tracker featuring accurate vaccination distribution data for public planners and casual users. The Bing Covid tracker, https://www.bing.com/covid, brings together multiple sources of information to a one stop website that leverages the Bing Maps V8 Web control.
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The Microsoft Maps team has been busy since our last Building footprints blog in 2020. Not only have we added Australia, South America, Nigeria & Kenya but we have also updated our previous collections from 2019 by leveraging newer imagery. As with our other releases, you can find all of the latest building footprint sets in Github and on Open Street Maps!
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The largest producer of renewable energy in Switzerland, Axpo, leverages Microsoft Maps along with Cognitive Search and Power BI to improve power grid operations with Azure-based solution platform
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11 new 3D cities from around the globe are now available on experiences powered by Microsoft Maps. For example, check out the beach in Calais, Portugal.
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Move Faster with Bing Maps Isochrones for Travel Time. What schools are within a 20-minute walk from my home? What available jobs are within a 30-minute transit commute? Where you are located and what is near you brings context to the choice of where you want to live. Bing Maps Isochrone API can help you bring that location intelligence into your applications.
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The partnership with TomTom enhances our mapping portfolio, helping us deliver the best mapping experience across multiple platforms. As a result, Bing Maps is switching to TomTom for base map data for regions outside of China, Japan, and South Korea. In March we began gradually rolling out the new TomTom base map data to Bing.com users and Microsoft first party products. Today, we are starting the migration period for the Bing Maps Platform.
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The Bing Maps Platform offers a full suite of premium routing and logistics APIs for your fleet management and logistics applications, and we are pleased to share with you some of our recent updates to these APIs.
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After launching traffic camera imagery on Bing Maps in April, we have seen a lot of interest in this new feature. Based on the popularity of this feature, the Bing Maps Routing and Traffic team has made some further improvements to this routing experience.
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Imagine being able to navigate through your neighborhood using your hearing alone. With the help of Bing Maps Local Search and Location Recognition APIs, Microsoft Soundscape helps the blind and low vision explore the world around them using a map delivered in 3D sound.
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Seeingit.com is an interactive, self-serve publishing website empowering locals, businesses, and event coordinators to share info about community events and fun things to see and do. With its location-based capabilities powered by the Bing Maps Platform, Seeingit.com saves users from FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) with maps.
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