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Steve
Steve

Reputation: 4908

Is a license required to use the Bing maps version that's on Facebook pages?

I notice that Facebook pages allow a map box that clicks to a full page, dynamic Bing map: enter image description here

And by just changing the address and name parameters in the link HTML I can get the map to show any location and map sign I want.

Do I need a license to generate these links myself for clients that I build a web page for?

Thanks for any information.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 86

Answers (1)

rbrundritt
rbrundritt

Reputation: 18004

If you want to create links to Bing Maps that open a map to specific location using nothing more than a URL then you can do this using the documented method found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn217138.aspx Don't reverse engineer the maps on Facebook.

A license is not required to do this. However you will find that you are limited to only the functionality that is exposed through the URL and won't be able to do much in terms of customizations. You will also be taking users away from there current environment to the Bing Maps website which might not be the ideal user experience. If you need more customization functionality or a better user experience then you would use the Bing Maps development API and which does have some free terms of use, but also has options for licensing high volume or internal apps.

Upvotes: 3

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