Create engaging applications for your customers and develop powerful ways to visualize
                            business information by combining online maps with your integrated data. 
                        
                              
                        
                            The Virtual Earth platform offers: 
                        
                            - The same rich, robust, customizable imagery available on mobile devices and on the
                                desktop.
 
                            - Broader international mapping capabilities, including localized maps in English,
                                Italian, Spanish, French, and German for Western Europe, and increased parsing elsewhere
                                globally.
 
                            - Richer data, including more than 70% of all U.S. rooftops included, as well as enhanced
                                features like pushpin clustering, landmark-based routing, and more.
 
                            - Enhanced functionality, including the new Virtual Earth Web Services API, which
                                offers mobile-optimized static map images, direct map tile access, one-box search
                                functionality, geocoding, reverse geocoding, and routing.
 
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