RequestBase.Culture Property

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.

Syntax

public string Culture { set; get; }

Public Property Culture As String

Remarks

Depending on the culture string specified, the following items will be returned in the language of the culture:

• Geographic entities and place names returned from the Geocode Service.

• Map labels on the images returned by the Imagery Service or Bing Maps tile servers.

• Route directions text returned by the Route Service.

• Place name search results returned by the Search Service. Business names are not localized.

Some cultures return business data through the Bing Maps SOAP Search Service. These cultures are Germany (de-DE), Canada (en-CA, fr-CA), the United Kingdom (en-GB), India (en-IN), The United States (en-US), France (fr-FR), and Italy (it-IT)

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.

* 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 https://dev.mapindia.live.com/sdk.