<p>The second major release of Live Maps for China is out and can be accessed at <a href="http://ditu.live.com" target="_blank"><strong>http://ditu.live.com</strong></a>. Congrats to our engineering team in China for getting this big update out - it represents many months of coding and brings some great improvements to map surfers in China. It also brings an API for developers and a localized SDK.* Qingsong is a Program Manager on the maps team in Beijing and has this rundown on the release.</p> <p>I am pleased to announce that VE China 'Goliath'' release is live on <a href="http://ditu.live.com">http://ditu.live.com</a>. Here is a list of the new and improved areas- <ul> <ul> <li>VE China API for developers, with VE China SDK documentation on Chinese MSDN. <li>Pinyin support for map search query <li>Business photos on the details page <li>Transit -* Improved route quality; better estimation of trip time; refreshed transit data for all 11 cities. <li>Geocoding - Support Pinyin correction; geocoding match rate greatly improved <li>New process for monthly data update leading to more timely and accurate maps and Business listings</li></ul></ul> <p><a href="http://ditu.live.com/?v=2&cid=8FA3D22DC63E1BF5!108&encType=1" target="_blank"><img style="border-right:0px;border-top:0px;border-left:0px;border-bottom:0px" border="0" alt="image" src="http://byfiles.storage.msn.com/y1pTcqBXnZTBA_2GkrzF-POsH9P11swBhymRvaSK-9Sd9Zb0-i7yc_SxTsHLEV8_zOIU9XCGUwhTdc?PARTNER=WRITER" width="600" height="365" /></a> </p> <div style="padding-right:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin:0px;padding-top:0px;display:inline">Technorati tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Ditu" rel="tag">Ditu</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Live Maps" rel="tag">Live Maps</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Chinese Maps" rel="tag">Chinese Maps</a></div>

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