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Bing Maps for Enterprise removal

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Bing Maps for Enterprise services will shut down on June 30, 2028. The service is deprecated and has already been retired for free Basic account customers, while Enterprise account customers can continue using it until that date. After June 30, 2028, requests to dev.virtualearth.net will fail.


What to use instead of these calls

Move geocoding, routing, and map calls to Azure Maps (atlas.microsoft.com) by following Microsoft's migration guides. The transition requires more than updating an endpoint, as Azure Maps needs an Azure subscription, a new key, and uses different APIs from Bing Maps.

Azure Maps needs an Azure subscription and a new key, and its APIs differ from Bing Maps'.

In Bing Maps API's words

Bing Maps for Enterprise is deprecated and has been retired for all free (Basic) account customers. Enterprise account customers can continue to use Bing Maps for Enterprise services until June 30th, 2028.

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Facts

API
Bing Maps API dev.virtualearth.net
Kind
Removal
Takes effect
June 30, 2028
Calls after that day
Fail
Source
Announcement
Last updated
Verified
, against Bing Maps API's own pages

Questions

When does this change take effect?

Calls to Bing Maps for Enterprise stop working on June 30, 2028.

What happens to calls after June 30, 2028?

They fail from that day.

How do I find the calls this hits in my code?

Okapi reads your repository, finds the calls this change hits and opens a pull request with the fix. It never commits to your branches: every change comes as a pull request you review.


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Is your code calling this?

Okapi finds the calls this change hits in your repo and opens the pull request with the fix before June 30, 2028.

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