Geocoder Improvements

• Rooftop – Addresses are resolved to the latitude/longitude coordinate at the center of the address parcel (property boundary). Rooftop has the highest level of accuracy support. Its coverage varies by country.
• Address – Addresses are interpolated to a latitude/longitude coordinate on the street.
• Street Name – Addresses are resolved to the latitude/longitude coordinate of the street that contains the address. The address number is not processed.
• Basic – Geocoding support is limited and primarily only accurate to the city level. If an address is valid, Bing Maps attempts to resolve it, but a result is not guaranteed.

Routing Service Improvements

• Good - The country/region has detailed road data available in most populated centers and most of these have been verified for accuracy. Coverage is updated frequently. Remote areas may lack some road information.
• Fair - At a minimum, the country/region has major road data available as well as some detailed road data. Most often, these roads have not been verified for accuracy. Coverage is updated over time. Please visit the map to assess if the current version meets the needs of your application.
• Major Roads Only - At a minimum, the country/region coverage includes major roads. These roads have not been verified for accuracy. Coverage is updated over time. Please visit the map to assess if the current version meets the needs of your application.

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function GetMap()
{
	var map = new Microsoft.Maps.Map('#myMap', {
		credentials: '[YOUR_BING_MAPS_KEY]',
		zoom: 1
	});
}

<script type='text/javascript' src='https://www.bing.com/api/maps/mapcontrol?callback=GetMap' async defer></script>

function GetMap()
{
	var map = new Microsoft.Maps.Map('#myMap', {
		zoom: 1
	});
}

<script type='text/javascript' src='https://www.bing.com/api/maps/mapcontrol?callback=GetMap&key=[YOUR_BING_MAPS_KEY]' async defer></script>

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In Summary

• Batch forward and reverse Geocoding of up to 200,000 rows of data in a single request.
• Spatial data hosting and services: Upload a two-dimensional table of data as a data source and expose it as a spatial REST service.
  • Perform spatial queries against data sources using:
    • Find Nearby (radial)
    • Find in bounding box
    • Find by Property
    • Find along a route
    • Intersection search (i.e. search within a custom shape.)
• Public Data sources: Access public data sources that contain information such as points of interest and census data.
• Boundary Data: Access to administrative boundary data via the Geodata API. Boundary data types available vary from country to country. Supported boundary types; zip/postal codes, neighborhoods, cities, counties, states/provinces, countries, and continents.

• Easily geocode and upload a data source with just a few lines of code.
• Automatically compresses data before uploading.
• Supports uploading of delimited (pipe, tab, comma), XML (as per SDS schema), KML, KMZ and ESRI Shape files.
• Local data source validation. Reduces the number of invalid data sources that are uploaded, thus reduce the number of wasted SDS jobs that are created.

• Easily forward or reverse geocode up to 200,000 entities in a single request.
• Combines like addresses as a single request. This allows rows with the same addresses to only create a single row in the geocode process. This helps to maximize the 1M free batch geocode limit.

• Easily access the boundary data from the GeoData API and search for zip/postal codes, neighborhoods, cities, counties, states/provinces, countries, and continent boundaries.
• Provides compression tools for handling the encoded polygon data.

• Classes for easily creating queries for a data source.
• Parses response from any data source into a common QueryResult object.
• Support for multiple distance units (km, miles, feet, meters, yards)
• Support for filters.
• Handles encoding filter values, and escapes single quotes by using the OData convention of using two single quotes side by side.

How to add the .NET Spatial Data Services Toolkit to your project

PM> Install-Package BingMapsSDSToolkit

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{
    "type": "FeatureCollection",
    "features": [
      {
          "type": "Feature",
          "geometry": {
              "type": "Point",
              "coordinates": [-74.006393, 40.714172]
          },
          "properties": {
              "name": "New York",
              "description": "New York"
          }
      }
    ]
}

Drag and Drop a GeoJSON file

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title></title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <script type='text/javascript'>
    var map;

    function GetMap() {
        map = new Microsoft.Maps.Map('#myMap', {
            credentials: 'Your Bing Maps Key',
            zoom: 1
        });

        //Load the GeoJSON module.
        Microsoft.Maps.loadModule('Microsoft.Maps.GeoJson', function () {

            //Setup the drag & drop listeners on the map.
            var dropZone = document.getElementById('myMap');
            dropZone.addEventListener('dragover', handleDragOver, false);
            dropZone.addEventListener('drop', handleFileSelect, false);
        });
    }

    function handleDragOver(evt) {
        //Stop the browser from performing its default behavior when a file is dragged and dropped.
        evt.stopPropagation();
        evt.preventDefault();

        evt.dataTransfer.dropEffect = 'copy';
    }

    function handleFileSelect(evt) {
        //Stop the browser from performing its default behavior when a file is dragged and dropped.
        evt.stopPropagation();
        evt.preventDefault();

        //Remove any existing data from the map.
        map.entities.clear();

        //The list of files that have been dragged and dropped onto the map.
        var files = evt.dataTransfer.files; 

        //Keep track of the bounding box of all the data from all files dropped into the map.
        var dataBounds = null;

        //Loop through and attempt to read each file. 
        for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
            var reader = new FileReader();

            reader.onload = function (e) {
                try {
                    var geoJsonText = e.target.result;

                    //Attempt to parse the file as GeoJSON and add the shapes to the map.
                    var shapes = Microsoft.Maps.GeoJson.read(geoJsonText);
                    map.entities.push(shapes);
                    
                    //Calculate the bounding box of the data in the single file. 
                    var bounds = Microsoft.Maps.LocationRect.fromShapes(shapes);

                    //If data is already loaded from another GeoJSON file, merge the bounding boxes together.
                    if (dataBounds) {
                        dataBounds = Microsoft.Maps.LocationRect.merge(dataBounds, bounds);
                    } else {
                        dataBounds = bounds;
                    }

                    //Update the map view to show the data.
                    map.setView({ bounds: dataBounds, padding: 50 });
                } catch (e) {
                    alert('Unable to read file as GeoJSON.');
                }
            };

            //Read the file as text.
            reader.readAsText(files[i]);
        }
    }
    </script>
    <script type='text/javascript' src='https://www.bing.com/api/maps/mapcontrol?callback=GetMap' async defer></script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="myMap" style="position:relative;width:800px;height:600px;"></div>
</body>
</html>

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Additional Resources

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