Bing offers a trio of new local search APIs
These days Bing Maps is highly focused on the enterprise, mirroring Microsoft’s turn toward cloud-based solutions with the ascension of CEO Satya Nadella. The company has stopped trying to match features with Google Maps in competition for consumer attention and has focused increasingly on developers and enterprises. In that context, Microsoft has now released three location APIs: Bing Maps Location Recognition, Bing Maps Local Search API and Bing Maps Local Insights API. They were originally rolled out individually in December. What the APIs can deliver. Location Recognition will translate a lat-long coordinate into more…
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