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The Microsoft Virtual Earth or Bing Maps APIs include map controls and services that you can use to incorporate Bing Maps in applications and websites.

The Microsoft Virtual Earth or Bing Maps APIs include map controls and services that you can use to incorporate Bing Maps in applications and websites. In addition to interactive and static maps, the APIs provide access to other geospatial features such as geocoding, route and traffic data and spatial data sources that you can sued to store and query data that has a spatial component, such as store locations.

see Getting Started with Bing Maps

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Obtain coordinates of a point on a road

I have a range defined by an intersection and a number of feet away from the intersection. (e.g. 100 ft north of Washington St. & 5th St. to 300 ft south of Washington St. & 6th St.) I am looking to geocode this into a lat/long pair. However, I…
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Issue with Bing Map --p_elSource.attachEvent is not a function

I am facing major problem with Bing Maps. I am using : http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=6.3 First I am getting error in firebug as : this.CreditsFor=function(a,i,j,h) { var e=[]; if(a!="undefined"&&a!=null&&typeof…
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Make virtual earth infobox appear on click instead of hover?

Is it possible to make Virtual Earth pushpin infobox display respond from onclick instead of mouseover? Currently I'm using something like this: ... var pin = new VEShape( VEShapeType.Pushpin, [location] …
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How do I find the the exact lat/lng coordinates of a birdseye scene in Virtual Earth?

I'm trying to find the latitude and longitude of the corners of my map while in birdseye view. I want to be able to plot pins on the map, but I have hundreds of thousands of addresses that I want to be able to limit to the ones that need to show on…
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How to control layer ordering in Virtual Earth

I have a mapping application that needs to draw a path, and then display icons on top of the path. I can't find a way to control the order of virtual earth layers, other than the order in which they are added. Does anyone know how to change the z…
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Custom Navigation Map Controls for Bing Maps (formerly Virtual Earth) to replace the default MS one

I'd like to jazz up our map interface which uses microsoft's bing maps. I'm tired of the default blue control that you see on every page. I'm not a graphic designer so I was wondering if anyone had created custom map controls which they wouldn't…
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Virtual Earth or Google Maps

Simple question, the answer may not be... I'm going to be developing a web app (ASP.NET MVC) for a client. They have asked me for an opinion on whether to use Google Maps or Virtual Earth for providing a mapping solution. Which would you go for and…
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How to plot a long path with Virtual Earth

The obvious way to plot a path with virtual earth (VEMap.GetDirections) is limited to 25 points. When trying to plot a vehicle's journey this is extremely limiting. How can I plot a by-road journey of more than 25 points on a virtual earth map?
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How can I show some shapefile / Well-Known-Text data on Google Maps / MS Virtual Earth?

I have some shapefile (demographic/heat map data in the USA, such as crime in New York) data imported into a sql server 2008 database, field data type: Geography. How can i get this data, from a select query, in a format which i can then display on…
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Hierarchical frustum culling of sphere tiles

I am working on 3d planet terrain visualization right now. My terrain visualization method is quite common and based on level of detail rendering. There are N levels of detail. One of such level is showed on the picture: When required level of…
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How to send multiple waypoints to a virtual earth routing web service

I'm trying to use the virtual earth web service: http://staging.dev.virtualearth.net/webservices/v1/routeservice/routeservice.svc?wsdl to return the total journey distance made by a vehicle that has stopped at several points. My code works fine for…
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Plotting Address on Virtual Earth

How can I plot a point of an address on a map? I want to basically use VEMap.Find(), but simply get the coordinates of the location.
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Bing Virtual Earth 7.0 calculate area

I have a map where i have created pushPin for all the places i have checked in on facebook. I want to zoom in on the area where i have the most checkinplaces (pushPins). I could have a static zoom level and calculate some kind of median value but…
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Extending a class, compiler complains Microsoft.MapPoint.PlugIns.PlugIn does not contain a

I'm following the tutorial's that come with the SDK for Microsoft Virtual Earth, and when I try to create a plugin like it says, the compiler won't let me. I'm extending the class Microsoft.MapPoint.PlugIn.PlugIn and it has two abstract methods…
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openlayers GetFeatureInfo request example + virtual earth/google

Simply I copied the example code from http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/getfeatureinfo-control.html. I used geoserver to run it and everything is working properly like the internet version, now I tried to change the political baselayer with a…
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