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A big update to http://ditu.live.com/ went out yesterday featuring real time traffic information in Beijing and a free Send to Mobile feature for local search results and transit information. Transit info is now available in 31 cities and many new subway lines have been added for existing areas. Other improvements since V1 include lots more geocoding coverage and refreshed map tiles representing the latest vector street data. click the image below to try it out -

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This brief mail came to me this AM from Vincent Tao who leads many of Microsoft’s mapping and GIS initiatives in China -

CCTV (China Central Television) is the largest Chinese Broadcasting Company who owns the exclusive Olympics broadcasting rights for China. We just released the first version of VE integrated with CCTV Olympics site for ‘Euro Soccer Game 2008’. For the next phase, VE will be integrated with CCTV for the Olympics events.

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It’s being developed at Harvard.

The CEGRP website is a gateway to maps, GIS data, and GIS analysis to facilitate and to share research efforts focused on the recent earthquakes in China.

Building upon the Task Force initiative of Bao Shuming (China …

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The second major release of Live Maps for China is out and can be accessed at http://ditu.live.com. Congrats to our engineering team in China for getting this big update out - it represents many months of coding and brings some great improvements to map surfers in China. It also brings an API for developers and a localized SDK. Qingsong is a Program Manager on the maps team in Beijing and has this rundown on the release.

I am pleased to announce that VE China ‘Goliath” release is live on http://ditu.live.com. Here is a list of the new and improved areas-

• VE China API for developers, with VE China SDK documentation on Chinese MSDN.
• Pinyin support for map search query
• Business photos on the details page
• Transit - Improved route quality; better estimation of trip time; refreshed transit data for all 11 cities.
• Geocoding - Support Pinyin correction; geocoding match rate greatly improved
• New process for monthly data update leading to more timely and accurate maps and Business listings

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