Bing Maps end of life timeline in Cesium ion

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Hello Cesium users!

As you might have noted, last year Microsoft announced end of life for Bing Maps. For most users, the end of life is rapidly approaching - June 30, 2025. However, Cesium is an Enterprise Bing Maps customer, and the latest possible end date for our use is June 30, 2028. If you are using Bing Maps through Cesium ion, you can continue to do so without worry. In fact, if you are losing access to Bing data through another means and want more time before switching to an alternative, Cesium ion can help.

We’re evaluating replacements for the Bing assets in Cesium ion. We’ll make an announcement as soon as we know our decision. Our plan will include time for you and other ion users to test the replacement before Bing Maps is no longer available through ion. However, it’s likely we will remove Bing assets from ion prior to the latest date in 2028, so please do stay tuned to be sure you take advantage of the transition time period. Follow this issue to keep up with our plans.

We’d also love to hear from you about how you use Bing now and what is most important to you in the replacement we choose. Leave comments below.

Regards,
Lisa Bos
Product Manager, Cesium ion

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Hi @lisabos,
Are there plans to replace the CesiumBingMapsRasterOverlay in Unity / Unreal engine with an Azure Maps equivalent? Note this is separate then the Cesium ion solutions… and allows a personal Bing Maps key to be used. The equivalent should be available for Azure Maps no? We will be loosing access to our basic (free) Bing key come the June 30, 2025 deadline. That may be a problem, just not for me but many others that are using the BingMapsRasterOverlay solution.

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Hi @5DRealities! Sorry for the slow reply. We do plan to add Azure Maps support in the Native clients (Unity, Unreal, …). Please follow this issue on the Native repo to keep up with progress.