In the Bing Maps v7 control there is the Directions module which allows you to calculate a route with up to 15 waypoints and also generate a nice UI of the resulting directions. Before this module we would have to access the Bing Maps Routing REST service directly to calculate routes. For some this may…
Microsoft has just announced a community driven project has been put together on CodePlex where developers can share custom modules they built for the Bing Maps V7 control. This will act as a central locations where developers can find community created modules for the Bing Maps control that extend and add functionalities to it. These…
That’s right, there is a Bing Maps WPF control available now. This was just recently announced . This control is currently in beta but already a lot of buzz is floating around about it. The current control is pretty basic in terms of functionality but this was by design. There is no default pushpin style…
Just recently it was brought to my attention that when you hover over a pushpin in Multimap a tooltip appears. For those who are migrating to Bing Maps V7 you may notice this does not happen but want this functionality. There are two ways to go about this. The first is unsupported and requires accessing…
Bing™ Maps EventTuesday 20th September 2011, London Victoria Bing Maps and our partners invite you to a Bing Maps event for customers migrating from our Multimap and MapPoint Web Service (MWS) platforms, at our Cardinal Place office in London Victoria. The event is primarily aimed at customers currently using the Multimap and MWS platforms and…
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