We can use Bing Map Services directly to implement our Bing Map project. Firstly you should have a Bing Map develop account which is free to register. The starter page is here, you can learn lots of methods which Microsoft provided. For example: If you want to put a static Bing map on your site, [Read More ...]
Some of Bing map and Google map services are not free, For example, They will not provide a free Geo database to developer. Fortunately there are some open source geo information websites. Geonames.org is the one great open source and free geo services provider. About Geonames.org: The GeoNames geographical database is available for download free [Read More ...]
We have finished the first step: Apply a Bing map key to develop Bing map application. Now we are going to write code for a simple Bing map application. What we first need to do is install Bing map SDK, we have already had an article about Bing map SDK. but the SDK information updated [Read More ...]
Even you are an experienced Bing map developer, you still might forget how to start to develop a Bing map application after some time if you no more touch the Bing map stuff. So here we record some initial tings for Bing map development. Microsoft Bing map developer center site: http://www.microsoft.com/maps/ The first step you [Read More ...]
public void Clear() { List<UIElement> elementsToRemove = new List<UIElement>(); List<UIElement> pushpinToRemove = new List<UIElement>(); foreach (UIElement element in MyMap.Children) { if (element.GetType() == typeof(MapLayer)) { MapLayer Lay = (MapLayer)element; if (Lay.Name == “PushPinLayer”) { foreach (UIElement p in Lay.Children) { if (p.GetType() == typeof(Pushpin)) { pushpinToRemove.Add(p); } } foreach (UIElement pin in pushpinToRemove) [Read More ...]