Downloading Bing map tiles from Microsoft is available for PTV Developer Components. Avoiding misunderstandings only satellite imagery is downloadable in order to combine these map tiles with PTV Maps.

The document we uploaded to the PTV Components customer area (go to customer area > PTV xServer > documents) describes what to do in order to integrate satellite imagery e.g.…

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The “Windows 8 Modern UI” (formerly known as “Metro”) defines a new programming model for apps which supports tablets and other touch devices.

Accessing xServers from these apps is simple: Just use SOAP with C#/VB or the new JSON API (see blog post of September 2012) with JavaScript to access the xServer functions directly from a Windows 8 app.…

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First of all: thanks to Frank Gailfuss (Logistics Components Desktop Development) for this superb blog post!

What is Bing Maps and what is the Bing Maps Aerial layer?

Bing Maps is a web mapping service provided as a part of the Microsoft’s Bing suite.…

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[Edit 20.6.2012:] Please check this post for new version

Also an update for  PTV xServer add-on AJAX Maps is available. Since the last version several improvements were implemented.

With version 2.9.1 we e.g. integrated the Bing Maps aerial layer.…

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