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Technical Requirements
Bing Maps Server and Bing Maps Desktop provide a subset of Bing Maps content and features and include additional powerful features to support the integration of enterprise data. Customers can integrate their own geospatial content for visualization and analysis on top of the large amounts of available Bing Maps for Enterprise content1.
Bing Maps Server and Bing Maps Desktop are scalable applications that will run on consumer laptops as well as enterprise-class servers. Hardware requirements are driven by system size and performance requirements, which are dependent upon geospatial content storage requirements, number of users, performance specifications, and redundancy requirements. Bing Maps Server and Bing Maps Desktop requires the Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Vista operating system ( x64). SQL Server 2008 is required to take full advantage of the custom data integration capabilities.
Bing Maps Server and Bing Maps Desktop can be configured with geospatial content for any user-specified region of the world. There is no additional charge for licensing the content (maps and imagery). You may specify geographic areas of interest and zoom levels. The amount of geospatial content you request will have an impact on the disk storage requirements for your hardware and on Bing Maps Server and Bing Maps Desktop System Build and System Refresh services.
Third-party data sets that have not been licensed by Microsoft for use on the Bing Maps Server or Bing Maps Desktop include Birds Eye imagery, GeoEye high resolution satellite imagery, and maps for some geographic regions outside of the US and Western Europe.
Please contact vexcel@microsoft.com for more information.
1. With no internet connectivity, web services such as live traffic, weather, Yellow Pages search, or Windows Live Collections are not included. Also, not all of the geospatial content is available due to third-party licensing restrictions.