Is there a bing API?
Microsoft has just launched a new search engine, Bing, "Bing Is Not Google". Does this service have an API? ...
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Virtual Earth VEShapeLayer Will Not Render
The goal: Allow user to turn on and off different layers of data; and to dynamically pull the data for the current extent from a database on map move event. This works fine and good if you hard code your VEShapeLayers as done here. My list of layers is coming from a database, I have everything working the way I want except that when I ...
How to send multiple waypoints to a virtual earth routing web service
Hi, I'm trying to use the virtual earth web service: http://staging.dev.virtualearth.net/webservices/v1/routeservice/routeservice.svc?wsdl to return the total journey distance made by a vehicle that has stopped at several points. My code works fine for journeys with 4 waypoints, but anything more than that I get the following error: ...
What's the famous Bing running on? Asp.net, asp.net mvc, IIS 7, .net 3.5?
What's the famous Bing running on? Asp.net, asp.net mvc, IIS 7, .net 3.5? Using firebug, I thought I could tell what was powering Bing since I had noticed the speed difference between that and Live.com. But, unfortunately, looking at the HTTP headers in firebug yield no server side information. So, what do you think. ...
Bing architecture and how it works underneath?
Hi, Could someone please explain how Bing.com works underneath and what is it's architecture? Implementation (languages used) Brief description of algorithm approach Hardware it runs on Approaches for scalability ...
bing video implementation
I just see the bing Video search , it is very good looking, I am planning to make some thing like that, I have different source of video (like Youtube, uploded video etc) I just want to implement the "mouse hover" video play and pause functionality. how can I implement that, any idea? ...
Anyone using Bing Map Web Services with Delphi?
Has anyone gotten Bing Map Web Services (formerly Virtual Earth Web Services) working with Delphi? Based on my experiences so far (both using Delphi and Visual Studio C#), I'm about ready to give up on it and go with the MapPoint Web Service until a future version of Bing Maps Web Services comes out. However, I thought I'd post a quest...
Using Bing as local search
For an ajax app I'm doing, I was using the google local search api to help enter in address info. For example, if the user needs to fill out employment information, typing in the business name would provide a list of matching businesses, then clicking one would fill out all of the address fields. However, we can't use it because of the r...
Why does Bing obfuscate their JavaScript?
I was surfing the web, as usual and I wanted to take a look at Bing's source code because I was curious and wanted to know what they were using to make their image fade in. I was surprised by what could only be qualified by the following line : Holy wall of text! And it made me wonder if there is any advantage to obfuscate your (X)HTML...
Bing image search paging - infinite scroll
When you search for images on the Bing search engine, the result is displayed like this: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=stack+overflow Notice how you can keep scrolling and scrolling and there is not "normal" paging. My question is: How do they do this? I can see there is some ajax/javascript events happening, but the code is not...
How does Bing.com create enlarged thumbnails?
When I search images using Bing.com, I realize their images are well cropped and sorted. When you place your mouse on an image, another window will pop up with an enlarged image. http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Heros&FORM=BIFD# I want to do the same thing in my program. I checked the source code of their page. They are using ja...
Custom Rendering in Bing Silverlight Control
Hi, I'm ramping up on a Silverlight 2 project that leverages the Bing Maps control. One thing our UX guys are wondering is whether it is possible to customize the look of the map completely. For example, draw countries as simple outlines with different color interiors. Or draw the ocean as white and countries as black dotted shapes. Do...
Connecting to Bing Maps SDK from a Rails app
I am attempting to connect to Bing Maps SDK through a RoR application. My goal is to calculate driving distance between two locations after geocoding them. I am new to SOAP and ROR so I may be making a simple mistake. Two days of Googling (Binging?) and I'm coming up short. Here is what I am doing: Environment Ruby 1.8.7 on Windo...
which map api most powerful? googlemap? bing map..etc?
which javascript map api do you folks think most powerful? lately bing also introduce their map ...
bing maps cost money?
hi I am building a new web site in asp.net, and im newbie with using maps. For my web site i will need the following functionality: display a map of specific location. display route map between two or more location calculate distance between 2 locations. I found most of the functionality at the Bing Maps interactive SDK site: and...
Stop bing maps simplifying polygons
Bing maps currently simplifies each polygon shape that gets put on the map. While that's good for most things, I need to show the full resolution polygons and I'll sort out the simplification myself. Any ideas on how to do this, I can't seem to find a way to turn it off and finding documentation on Bing/live/VE/MS/whatever maps is a ni...
VEMap Pan triggers VEMap.onclick
I'm using the Virtual Earth (or Bing!...) SDK and need to attach an event when someone clicks the map. Unfortunately panning the map also triggers the onclick event. Does anyone know of a work around? function GetMap(){ map = new VEMap('dvMap'); map.LoadMap(new VELatLong(35.576916524038616,-80.9410858154297), 11, 'h',false); mapIsInit...
Bing Performance
Bing has been around for more than 2 months now.There has been some positive reviews about bing. Some experts in search areas have pointed out that Bing results are more relevant than Google's since its index is still not cluttered with unnecessary garbage. Does these claims have any truth behind them ? ...
How to mimic effects of MaxScriptStatements (i.e. prevent "A script on this page is causing Internet Explorer to run slowly") without changing the registry?
We are using Bing and/or Google javascript map controls, sometimes with large numbers of dynamically alterable overlays. I have read http://support.microsoft.com/kb/175500/en-us and know how to set the MaxScriptStatments registry key. Problem is we do not want to programmatically set this or any other registry key on users' computers b...
Is there a restriction on MapPoint GlobeControl objects?
I am trying to make a control that makes use of the MapPoint 3d rendering engine. The control gets a GlobeControl (via the GlobeControl constructor) and then renders a 3D map. The problem is that if I try to get another GlobeControl later the globeControl.Host object of the newly constructed GlobeControl has almost all of its members ...