I have a Virtual Earth Maps (Bing Maps??) to which I have added a set of pushpins. Each pushpin is labelled 1 to n. In addition to adding pushpins to the map, I also add text to the web-page that contains the description to each pushpin. I would like to add a link to the text outside the map, that when clicked will open the balloon asso...
I'd like to jazz up our map interface which uses microsoft's bing maps. I'm tired of the default blue control that you see on every page. I'm not a graphic designer so I was wondering if anyone had created custom map controls which they wouldn't mind sharing with the community for commercial purposes. I really like the one that harley-...
Hi! I have a question very similar to this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30080/how-to-know-if-a-line-intersects-a-plane-in-c-basic-2d-geometry I am searching for a method that tells if a line is intersecting an arbitrary polygon in C#. I think the algorithm from chris-marasti-georg was very helpful but missing the most important...
If I hosted NerdDinner and had google ad-sense would I be a commercial user of Bing Maps / Virtual Earth thus have licensing costs? I've looked and found this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/828853/virtual-earth-or-google-maps and the TOS: http://www.microsoft.com/maps/product/terms.html but neither answer my question.. I'...
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...
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...
I have a virtual earth map which loads its Shapes (pushpins) from the Code Behind file (server side). I also have a ticker which runs across the top of the map which shows the cities for which we have a pushpin. I want to add aN "onmouseover" event to the city name within the ticker, so that when the user hovers over the city, the corr...
A team I work with is currently in an unfortunate situation. They've spent a lot of time integrating the google map control on their site but they didn't discover that to run google maps on a https site you must license the control (and it isn't cheap) and the same goes for bing maps. So my question is do you know of any cheaper/free ma...
How can I programmatically add 3-D shapes to Bing Maps (Virtual Earth)? ...
How to let the end user draw shapes at runtime on bing maps (Virtual Earth)? ...
Any nice suggestions on auto complete location searches, that integrate with something like Google or Bings location data? I am wanting capture the location of my users on sign up, currently I have a free text input box. I am wanting to have some sort of auto complete that guides the user to inputting more sanitised information, ideally...
I am overlaying a transparent image on my VEMap control by rendering it as a single VEShape. The shape changes sizes dynamically depeding on the zoom level of my map and can be as large as 4000*4000px. In older browsers such as IE6 and early versions of Firefox 2.x, map control performance degrades rapidly when my shape gets larger than...
Is it possible to draw a road using bing maps js api? Ideally I would supply two georeference points and the trajectory/road would be always on the same road. Basically, I want to highlight a road. ...
Hello, For a client I need to show a static Bing map, in Bird's Eye view, with the street labels turned off. I can accomplish Bird's Eye view with no labels for dynamic view by just clicking the toolbar buttons for Bird's Eye view and labels off. But my goal is to show this for a static map, on load, without the need to click any butt...
Is it possible to use any Microsoft Map component / control to integrate a map in a Silverlight 3 out of browser (only) application? ...
Is there a way to access the Bing Maps API via REST to obtain geocoding information from an address? This is something that's trivial to do with Google and Yahoo; what I'm looking for is functionality like this, from Yahoo: http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/rest/V1/geocode.html (Specifically, see the sample request URL on that page, but...
Not sure if that is the right way to ask this or not but here is the problem. Given a latitude of 26.746346081599476, how do I find the number 26.75 as the 16th greater than the number and 26.6875 as the 16th lower than the number? 26.0 26.0625 26.125 26.1875 26.25 26.3125 26.375 26.4375 26.5 26.5625 26.625 26.6875 My Number: 26.746346...
I am not sure whether this forum is appropriate for this question. But, I am dying for this information. The problem is certain parts of Google or Bing Map licenses does not allow me to use their map services/controls. Is there any commercial map controls (atleast for U.S) similar to Google maps available? Thanks in advance ...
I've been looking for an online geosearch API such that I can get location data for tourism spots, e.g. historic landmarks, tourism information locations, castles, etc. I'm not looking for a map image, but rather a list of location tagged data. I've played with CloudMade, but none of the object types seems to returning anything like the ...
And another one would be do I really need to have a license? I mean Bing Maps is running just fine. ...