bing-maps

Bing maps on android

I need to use Bing map API on android .As i am not able to get any proper tutorial , Has any body tried it . ...

How do I get local business results using google maps API

Is there any google/Yahoo/Bing API which gives local business results based on a ZIP/GeoCode of a location? If yes, please let me know. If Google Maps has such service, please let me know what where do I get a reference regarding that? ...

Bing Map Silverlight Control Architecture Diagram in ASP.NET

Hi, I am planning to use Bing Map for a store locator system. I will be using Bing Map Silverlight control for this in an ASP.NET website. The website has a 3 tier architecure. Could you please tell me where I can find some architecture diagrams that explains the bing silverlight control in a web based system (with ASP.NET) Note: The...

Get driving direction in iPhone

Hi, I read both iPhone and Google Map for iPhone EULA and want to implement a static driving direction map in my iPhone application (native). I am finding a simple way to get route data and display with build-in route display feature in iOS 4 SDK' Mapkit. Is there any programmer implement a feature like this with Google Map and Bing M...

Caputuring a Silverlight Bing Map as an image

The WriteableBitmap class that was introduced in Silverlight 3 does not allow images to be rendered from a different domain for security reasons and hence it is impossibe to output an image of the Bing Map. Does anyone have any suggestions for a workaround? I just want to capture a snapshot of the image including the controls and shapes...

BING Map in iPhone Application

How to integrate BING Map into iPhone Application? I am doing using VirtualEarthKit framework (http://consonancesw.com/blog/?p=64). My code is as below : I am getting error while getting token. { VECommonService *commonService = [[VECommonService alloc] init]; NSString *token; printf("2\n"); NSError *error=[commonService getToken:&t...

Bing Maps Javascript SDK returns different values for state abbreviations

Using the latest version (6.3) of Bing Maps AJAX Control I'm having the following problem: I get different lat/lon results for the map center if I do a VEMap.Find() for a city/state using the state abbreviation vs the state's full name. Example: Lehi, UT: 40.38966, -111.847473 Lehi, Utah: 40.1952667, -111.795029 The difference is ...

Silverlight xaml bind to extension method

So I'm working on a small project using the bing maps silverlight sdk. I'm getting a bunch of objects off a server (through wcf services) and each of these devices has a lat/long properties. To map something on bing maps, you supply it with a Location type (essentially just a wrapper for lat/long) The types I'm working with are stored o...

Basic Bing Silverlight Control ASP.NET C# Example

How do I add simple "pushpins" or other objects to a Bing Maps Silverlight Control from the ASP.NET C# code behind? I have only found examples for modifying the actual Silverlight control (i.e. MainPage.xaml). This is not the answer I am looking for. Thanks for the help, completely new to Bing Maps. ...

How should I handle click events on pushpins in my Bing Maps control for WP7

I'm about to add templated <Button> controls inside each of my Pushpins on my Map, in order to interact with the user clicking (er, touching) a pushpin. Is this the proper way to work with pushpins? I don't want to handle MouseDown and MouseUp and reinvent everything (and nobody should). I just need confirmation. ...

Set a map's top-left and bottom-right coordinates

I have a fixed number of pushpins on a Bing Map control, and need to set the map's center and zoom level so that I see all pins. In other words, knowing the leftmost, rightmost, topmost and bottommost pins, how can I adjust the view so I see them all? Is the ZoomLevel value of any significance relative to the scaling/coordinates? ...

Bing Maps Ajax API https url?

What's the https url for bing maps ajax api? I can't seem to find it anywhere, and am currently using http://ecn.dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=6.3, which is super slow (takes 20-60 seconds to load on each page request!) ...

Bing Maps Development - Map with Markers

I really like how this site looks: http://www.microsoft.com/web/WebsiteSpark/Catalog.aspx - specifically the GIS part - the map, the green markers, and how the markers on the map our bound to the list below. Would anyone know some resources on how I can get started on developing something like this? This site is appealing and really li...

VEMap: pan and zoom work separately; together, zoom no longuer works

I was trying to make Bing Maps's VEMap compatible with touch devices, in particular the iphone / webkit mobile. In the following example, this works: - pan using one finger - zoom in/out using pinch (two fingers) However if I put both in the same time, then the zoom doesn't work anymore: you can see in the console that VEMap.ZoomIn()...

Drawing arrows on bing maps in Silverlight

I need to draw lines to demonstrate transportation of goods on bing maps. To clarify start- and end-point, I draw a little arrowhead on the destination side. Problem is, when I view the global map, certain lines are drawn along the shortest path 'around the back'. For example going from New York City to Tokio, it would be drawn across th...

How to bind maximum and minimum zoom levels in Bing Maps Silverlight

I would like to implement a custom zoom slider for a Bing Maps control in my silverlight application. I can set up the mechanics of it in a pretty straightforward way: <Slider ... Value="{Binding ZoomLevel, Mode=TwoWay, ElementName=MyMap}"/> However, I can't find a way to bind the Maximum and Minimum properties of the Slider to the ma...

Silverlight WCF service timing out (even when passing one item)

I have a wcf service created that's being consumed by a silverlight application. We are using the service to get geographic data back: A point (consisting of an X and Y double) A shape represented as a List> Our one service method returns a collection of "Items" which contains a "Object ItemData" property. Depending on the data we ge...

Bing Maps Layers

I've been working with bing maps in Silverlight recently and have things at a good working order. One quirk that I would like to resolve is that all of my shapes that are drawn on the page get rendered on top of the road layer and even worse, the city names. So if my shapes are opaque, you can't read them. I'm figuring that there must be...

Phone 7 Bing map control - Add a pushpin when tap

I am using the latest Phone 7 RTM tools ( downloaded it today, October 7 2010). I am trying to do a simple thing here: when the user taps once on the map control, i want to put a pushpin there. also, i want to keep the regular built-in behavior of the map control ( tap twice to zoom). (If it's not possible to keep both behaviors , the...

Phone 7 Bing map control - ManipulationStarted event not starting.

I created a regular Phone 7 template. Drug the Bing map control to the main grid. And for some reason the ManipulationStarted event is not fired when i click/interact with the bing map control in the emulator. Why this is happening ? (I am using latest Phone 7 Tools RTM). ...