Many developers use the Bing Maps REST services to perform spatial queries such as geocoding an address or calculating routes and distances. The Bing Maps REST services are nice and fast, however, using them from a .NET application used to require a decent amount of work. The Bing Maps .NET REST Toolkit aims to make…
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…
A colleague of mine, Mike Spendlove, recently investigated connecting to the Bing Map web services from Perl and Python for a project he was working on. Currently there appears to be no information out there on how to do this yet so I asked if I could post the code. I have no experience with…
The Bing Maps Imagery service is commonly used for mobile applications. A common issue people have when using the Bing map imagery web services is figure out how to take a map and navigate around it by panning and zooming. Zooming is pretty straight forward as all the user has to do is increase or…
The Virtual Earth web services are fairly new and as such it does not currently have all the capabilities of it’s JavaScript counter part. One key functionality that is not currently available is the ability to draw routes on a map image. This can be done by extending the methods described in the article "VE…
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