A string specifying the culture in which to return results. Optional. The default value is "en-US". Set this property before making a service request.
public string Culture { set; get; }
Depending on the culture string specified, the following items will be returned in the language of the culture:
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Geographic entities and place names returned from the Geocode Service.
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Map labels on the images returned by the Imagery Service or Bing Maps tile servers.
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Route directions text returned by the Route Service.
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Place name search results returned by the Search Service. Business names are not localized.
The following table lists the supported culture strings for each service. If you set the culture string to a valid culture not found in this table, the default culture ("en-US") is used. If you set the culture string to an invalid culture, a fault is returned.
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Language - Country/Region
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Culture String
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Service Support
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Czech - Czech Republic**
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cs-CZ
|
Geocode Service, Route Service
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Danish - Denmark**
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da-DK
|
Geocode Service, Route Service
|
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Dutch - Netherlands**
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nl-NL
|
Geocode Service, Route Service
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English - Australia
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en-AU
|
Route Service
|
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English - Canada*
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en-CA
|
Geocode Service, Route Service, Search Service
|
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English - India***
|
en-IN
|
Search Service
|
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English - United Kingdom**
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en-GB
|
Geocode Service, Route Service, Search Service
|
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English - United States
|
en-US
|
This is the default culture.
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Finnish -Finland**
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fi-FI
|
Geocode Service, Route Service
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French - Canada*
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fr-CA
|
Geocode Service, Route Service, Search Service
|
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French - France**
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fr-FR
|
Geocode Service, Route Service, Search Service
|
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German - Germany**
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de-DE
|
Geocode Service, Route Service
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Italian - Italy**
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it-IT
|
Geocode Service, Route Service, Search Service
|
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Japanese - Japan
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ja-JP
|
Geocode Service, Route Service, Search Service
|
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Norwegian (Bokmal) - Norway**
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nb-NO
|
Geocode Service, Route Service
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Portuguese - Brazil**
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Pt-BR
|
Geocode Service, Route Service
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Portuguese - Portugal**
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pt-PT
|
Geocode Service, Route Service
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Spanish - Spain**
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es-ES
|
Geocode Service, Route Service
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Spanish - United States*
|
es-US
|
Route Service, Search Service
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Swedish - Sweden**
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sv-SE
|
Geocode Service, Route Service
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* Support for this culture is limited to the United States and Canada.
** Support for this culture is limited to Europe.
*** Information about a fully supported set of web services for India users is found at http://dev.mapindia.live.com/sdk.