Culture Parameter

Note

Bing Maps for Enterprise service retirement

Bing Maps for Enterprise is deprecated and will be retired. Free (Basic) account customers can continue to use Bing Maps for Enterprise services until June 30th, 2025. Enterprise account customers can continue to use Bing Maps for Enterprise services until June 30th, 2028. To avoid service disruptions, all implementations using Bing Maps for Enterprise REST APIs and SDKs will need to be updated to use Azure Maps by the retirement date that applies to your Bing Maps for Enterprise account type.

Azure Maps is Microsoft's next-generation maps and geospatial services for developers. Azure Maps has many of the same features as Bing Maps for Enterprise, and more. To get started with Azure Maps, create a free Azure subscription and an Azure Maps account. For more information about azure Maps, see Azure Maps Documentation. For migration guidance, see Bing Maps Migration Overview.

Use the culture parameter to specify a culture for your request. The culture parameter provides the following strings in the language of the culture for:

1. Geographic entities and place names returned by the Bing Maps REST Services

2. Map labels on map images

3. Route instructions

You can use the alias to shorten the length of the culture parameter.

For example, culture=da can be shortened to c=da.

Parameter	Alias	Description	Values
culture	c	Optional. The culture to use for the request.	For a list of supported cultures, see Supported Culture Codes.

Example

The following example finds the location for an address string and provides the information in German, which is the language associated with the culture code de.

http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Locations/Börsenplatz%201%20Frankfurt%20am%20Main%20Hessen%2060313?c=de&key={BingMapsKey}