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What happened to the MapPoint Web Service? What is the difference between the Virtual Earth platform and MapPoint Web Service?

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What happened to the MapPoint Web Service? What is the difference between the Virtual Earth platform and MapPoint Web Service?

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A. The Virtual Earth platform encompasses the next evolution of the MapPoint Web Service offering with innovative new capabilities. The Virtual Earth platform is not only a new brand name; it represents a richer, more powerful offering from Microsoft to companies of all industries. Developers have the flexibility of tapping into one of the two Virtual Earth application programming interfaces (API): MapPoint Web Service API using SOAP XML to communicate with customer applications and Virtual Earth Map Control that lets users make request via JavaScript to an AJAX map object.