bing-maps

Anyone found a Cocoa Touch library for integrating Bing Maps into an iPhone app?

I ran across VirtualEarthKit at http://consonancesw.com/developers/virtualearthkit/faq.php but so far they only have a wrapper for OS X and not iPhone. ...

What map choice (e.g. Google, Bing, etc) for my SaaS product?

Part of what I want to offer subscribers to my application is a map showing the location of their customer, with the option to get directions (the idea is that they can just easily get the directions from one place instead of copying/pasting and going to Google Maps or Mapquest or whichever). As I understand it, however, Google Maps wil...

Bing maps used offline: cache tiles from its web service.

Hello. I'm developing a Windows Mobile application that uses Bing Maps Web Service to show user's position on it. I think I have a problem if the user hasn't got internet service on his mobile, so I think I can cache the tiles of a city, for example, so the user doesn't need to be online to use my application. Is this possible? How ca...

How do I center and show an infobox in bing maps?

My code does a .pantolatlong then a .showinfobox The info box does not appear, unless I remove the pantolatlong. I guess it is stopping it. I tried adding it to the endpan event but that did not work. What is the simplest way to pan to a pushpin and display the infobox for it? I was using setcenter, but I discovered that sometimes set...

Topographical or relief data in Map APIs

Hi I was wondering if anyone knew of any map APIs that offer topographical or relief data? I've had a quick look at Google and Bing APIs, but could find nothing there. Google allow you to view a map as TERRAIN, which means you can see the topography of a map, but I want to be able to get at that data - i.e. if I were to draw a line be...

Directions and Route in iPhone using Bing Map

Can we load a Bing Map in iPhone and show Route between source and destination points thourgh some waypoints. ...

Remove map move event by user

How I can handle map move event by user? (Down left mouse button and mouse move) My goal is remove all users event, which can modification map view. I using Bing Silverlight Map Control. ...

How to cover an area using bing map?

Hi all, Is there any possible way to cover a area using BING MAP. Go to this link. https://www.movinghelp.com/coverage.aspx?id=5924 I need exactly what it looks like. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks n advance. ...

How do popular routing gps/phones/mapping web sites update their route information?

How do popular routing gps/phones/mapping web sites update their route information? And do any phones send back data based on the users actual trip to allow the system to update route information? ...

Using Silverlight Bing Maps control for commercial apps

I am developing a commercial Silverlight application with the new Bing Maps control (Version 1.0), and so far I have not been able to find any answers on how to associate transactions with my Bing Maps developer account. I know the control is not free to use for commercial purposes, so there must be a way for me to give it a Bing Maps to...

Bing Maps - removing Itinery icons

Hi I'm tryng to create a route planner to track my running routes. Using Bing Maps, I am able to create the route, but I'm struggling to remove to default 'beginning', 'end' and 'red circle' itinery icons. Below is my code so far (based on this link). All I basically want is my own start icon at the beginning of the route and my en...

Bing Maps Transaction Tracking

I have an Enterprise license for Bing Maps which enables me to view my transactions, but what I'd like to be able to is also break the transactions down by user. I'd like to know if certain customers are racking up higher than expected transactions. It's my understanding that the Bing API will allow me to track by client IP, but that do...

Highlighting whole street with some maps API

Hello, Is there any way to highlight/display on Google/Bing/(any other map provider) Maps whole street (from the beginning of the street to the end of)? I know the existence of Polyline in Google Maps API, but it's just connecting two latitude points, and there is no way of making it automatic so I could display any street in some city...

Debugging Bing Maps JavaScript errors

I'm using the Bing Maps / Virtual Earth control and it appears to be working, however Firebug in Firefox 3.6 and Chrome are reporting an uncaught exception in Microsoft's mapcontrol.ashx file. I'm concerned that this may be caused by a bug in my code interacting with Bing Maps. As this JavaScript file is minified I can find no way of de...

Silverlight - Add Pushpin to Bing Maps via C#

Hello, I'm getting started with the Silverlight Bing Maps control. How do I add a Pushpin to a map programmatically with C#? Thank you! ...

How to open a Bing Maps from vb.net ?

I would like to pass and address to and open Bing Maps from a vb.net app. Anywhere I can find an example of how to do this? ...

Optimizing Bing Maps Geocode and RouteMapping requests

I have a database containing orders and each order has an associated location. Currentl, when a user is logged in ,I am using Bing Maps API to geocode each order location and then compute driving distance to the logged in user. Based on these distances, the user via a dropdownbox can then specify the maximal distances with the results di...

Custom zoom level in Bing Maps Silverlight control

Has anyone out there been able to zoom past level 21 with the Bing Maps Silverlight control? My tiles are generated and I can get them to show, but I can't reach the zoom level I require (level 22). I have tried everything, including using a LocationRectTileSource with the zoom set past 21. I'm really out of ideas. ...

Using GoogleMaps, or Bing pseudo-commercially??

I have an app for which I have extensive use of geocoding, and map plotting. I'd like to make money off it, but not pay the $10k tax since I'm a little guy. I was thinking about offering the mapping aspects of the app for free, but charge for additional add-ons/features. Would this be breaking the google licensing? ...

Why would Bing Maps' VEMap.Find be failing silently?

I'm doing some research on using Bing Maps for a proposed application and I've run into a wall. The general idea is that I want to show the locations of various items we have within X distance to a location. The start point is the US map and we're using the user's click to get lat/long, and using that to pick the nearest city. We'll cent...