Defines the version of the URL API (Application Programming Interface. The language used by an application program to communicate with a computer's operating system.) . If you use this parameter, you should always assign it a value of 2. If you omit this parameter, the latest version of the API is used by default.

Defines the market for your URL using universal two-letter language codes and two-letter ISO (International Organization for Standardization) country codes separated by a hyphen.

Defines where the center of the map should be. Use the following format for the cp parameter:

Latitude~Longitude

Both values must be expressed in decimal degrees.

Defines the zoom level of the map view in 2D mode. Valid values are 1-19; for oblique, 1-2. This parameter is ignored if you don't include the cp parameter.

Defines the zoom level of the map view in 3D mode. The value that you assign to this parameter equals the number of meters above sea level that you want the zoom level to be. For example, alt=1000 sets the zoom level at 1000 meters above sea level. Valid values are 0 to 20,000,000.

Defines the map view. Valid values for this parameter include:

• a: Display an aerial view of the map.
• r: Display a road view of the map.
• h: Display an aerial view of the map with labels.
• o: Use this value to display a bird's eye (oblique) view of the map.
• b: Display a bird's eye (oblique) with labels view of the map.

Specifies the ID of the bird's eye (oblique) image tile to display. Use this parameter to specify a view or angle. This parameter is required if the style parameter is set to o or b.

Defines a location to center the map based on a specific address or a place name. The text is the same text that you type in the upper search box in Bing Maps to search for a specific address or place name.

Defines the searches that you want to display.

Use this parameter to display search results for a business, person, or collection.

You can add a prefix to each search string that specifies whether the search is a yellow pages search (for business listings), a white pages search (for individuals), or a collection (for community-generated data). Use the yp. prefix for yellow pages searches, the wp. prefix for white pages searches, and the Cl. prefix for collections.

You can add a prefix to each search string that specifies whether the search sort is displayed by relevance, distance, rating, or page number. Use the following values to define the type of sort you want:

• 0 = Relevance
• 1 = Distance
• 2 = Rating

Defines the start and end of a route to draw on the map, each separated by a tilde (~). Each of the waypoints (Coordinates that identify a point on the map.) are defined by either a pos (position) or adr (address) identifier, both of which are described in the next table.

A complete route contains at least two waypoints. For example, a route with two waypoints is defined by the following:

rtp="A"~"B"

rtp="A"~

rtp=~"B"

Defines a waypoint as a specific position on the map. Use the following format:

rtp=pos.latitude_longitude_name

Defines a waypoint as an address. Use the following format:

rtp=adr.address

Defines options for the route. There are three possible options, each separated by a tilde (~). The default value of 0~0~0 (non-abbreviated, quickest, without traffic) will be used if an option is not specified.

• 0 = Quickest
• 1 = Shortest
• 0 = Don't use traffic
• 1 = Use traffic
• 0 = No abbreviation
• E = End only
• S = Start Only

This is an optional parameter that specifies the start view for a route.

• 0 = Show all (default)
• 1 = Start from the first direction
• 2 = Start from the second direction
• 3 = Start from the third direction
• 4 = Start from the fourth direction

Defines a specific entity, address, or pin (A marker containing information such as notes and links, which you can place at a specific point on a map.) to add to the collections editor.

Collections editor items are defined as a pairing: the category and the value, separated by a period. There are six valid categories: adr, an, point, polyline, polygon,and yp. These are described in the next table.

Separate multiple collections editor items with tildes (~). If the item you specify contains a tilde, make sure the tilde is encoded as %7E.

Specifies the collection that you want to display by using the ID assigned to that collection. For the collection ID parameter, use the following format:

cid=collection ID

Displays a collection of items by using the location specified in the URL. For the map URL parameter, use the following format:

mapurl=url

Displays the viewer's Favorites, if they are signed in to Bing Maps. If the viewer isn't signed in to Bing Maps, they'll receive a notification to sign in.

You should always set the fave parameter to 1.

Forces Bing Maps to open in exploration task mode. There are three ways to sort results in exploration task mode:

• 1 = Distance
• 3 = Static rank
• 4 = Chronological

For the explore parameter, use the following format:

explore= sst.sorttype
~tag.tagstring

Displays a collection in 3D tour mode. Use either of the following options to determine how the tour that is loaded is displayed:

• 0 = Loads the collection tour in a paused state
• 1 = Loads the collection tour in an automatic playing state

Specifies an address to add to the collections editor. For the address, the value can be the address string, the address string and title, or the address string, title, and description:

sp=adr.addressString

sp=adr.addressString_title

sp=adr.addressString_title_description

Make sure that the addresses you provide are as specific as possible.

Specifies a point to add to the collections editor by using latitude and longitude. For points, the value includes the latitude, longitude, title, notes, link URL, and photo URL to display, each separated by an underscore (_):

sp=point.position_
title string_notes,
string_link URL_photo URL

Specifies a point to add to the collections editor by using the vertex positions on the map. For polylines, the value includes the latitude, longitude, title, notes, link URL, photo URL, fill color, line color, line weight, and line style to display, each separated by an underscore (_):

sp=polyline.vertex positions_title string_notes string_link URL_photo URL_fill color_line color_line weight_line style_label position

Specifies a point to add to the collections editor by using the vertex positions on the map. For polygons, the value includes the latitude, longitude, title, notes, link URL, photo URL, fill color, line color, line weight, and line style to display, each separated by an underscore (_):

sp=polygon.vertex positions_title string_notes string_link URL_photo URL_fill color_line color_line weight_line style_label position

Specifies yellow page listings. For yellow page listings, the value is a valid yellow pages entity ID:

sp=yp.listingID