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Saulius Laurinaitis
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Aug 23, 2017

Bing Maps key in SharePoint Online

Hi, Modern pages have a web part for Bing maps and modern event page shows a map image based on geolocation field value. On that page, you can easily get Bing map key and of course to reuse it for c...
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John_Sanders
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Jan 04, 2018

Saulius Laurinaitis - If you want to create a custom web part leveraging Bing developer capabilities, you need to invest in your own API key (of course). The fact that with JavaScript you can "acquire" someone else's API key doesn't give you implicit permission to use it.

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Saulius Laurinaitis
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Feb 02, 2018

I actually got an answer from Bing team that I can use Office 365 SharePoint Bing API key until the application stays in my Office 365 tenant.