Bing Maps China Grows with New Features

Reported by Softpedia on Friday, 20 November 2009 (on November 20, 2009)

Microsoft continues to push forward with efforts to expand its mapping, search and location platform. While Bing Maps, formerly Virtual Earth and Live Search Maps, is essentially a Cloud based application covering the entire world, the company does focus on specific markets more than on others. Case in point: Bing Maps China, which along with Bing Maps (US) and Bing Maps UK, gets preferential treatment in comparison with other countries around the world. Chris Pendleton, the Bing Maps technical evangelist for Microsoft, announced that the software giant introduced a massive update to Bing Maps China. “The Bing Maps China site has updated much of their data, added tons of new data and added a few new features,” Pendleton noted. Usually, the Redmond company measures its Bing Maps updates in multi-Terabytes, and most probably it is the case here, but no actual figures on the size of the refresh were made public. Instead, Pendleton enumerated a range of new features that were brought to the table with the latest update. Chinese users of Bing Maps will be able to enjoy enhancements associated with the Yellow Pages integration, business images, transit and traffic information, road data, directions, etc. At the same time, Microsoft has also bumped up a notch the resources made available to developers to bu...

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