Today Microsoft Corp. is launching MapPoint® Web Service 3.5, the latest version of its popular location and mapping Web service. Microsoft® MapPoint Web Service 3.5 provides a rich set of capabilities that enable enterprise customers to more efficiently and cost-effectively incorporate location data into a wide range of location-based solutions. Chief among the new capabilities in MapPoint Web Service 3.5 are new tools for enabling customers to easily manage and maintain their corporate data, expanded global geographic coverage, and new capabilities for developing applications for the mobile work force.
MapPoint Web Service 3.5 also continues to offer great support for industry standards such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Extensible Markup Language (XML), which provide developers with common standards that can be used to ensure reliable interoperability of solutions built with the MapPoint platform.