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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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An effective algorithm for buffering a polyline to create a polygon?

I need to write some code that will buffer a line to create a polygon as shown below. http://www.sli.unimelb.edu.au/gisweb/BuffersModule/Buff_line.htm From following the steps outlined, I can create polygon shapes around simple lines that do not…
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Interface to a webservice?

I have two webservices that have exactly the same methods and signatures but point at different servers (specifically the Virtual Earth production and staging environments). I wish to switch between using the production and staging services on the…
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What mapping/earth controls are available for iPad app development?

What mapping/earth controls are available for iPad app developer? Is MapKit the only one?
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Virtual Earth adding pushpins by address - events firing out of order

I’ve been working on a mapping project to display service orders for a utility company but I’m having some issues getting the numbering on my pins and the info boxes. The following is a small segment of the page I’m working with to demonstrate the…
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What's the best Street Address Search service?

I'm impressed with the simplicity of Microsoft's Virtual Earth Street Address search service. My requirement is to type rough address info with no comma separators into a simple text box, press a find button, wait a few seconds and then observe a…
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Debugging Bing Maps JavaScript errors

I'm using the Bing Maps / Virtual Earth control and it appears to be working, however Firebug in Firefox 3.6 and Chrome are reporting an uncaught exception in Microsoft's mapcontrol.ashx file. I'm concerned that this may be caused by a bug in my…
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VEMap Pan triggers VEMap.onclick

I'm using the Virtual Earth (or Bing!...) SDK and need to attach an event when someone clicks the map. Unfortunately panning the map also triggers the onclick event. Does anyone know of a work around? function GetMap(){ map = new…
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If NerdDinner had ads, would the Bing Maps compoment have licensing costs?

If I hosted NerdDinner and had google ad-sense would I be a commercial user of Bing Maps / Virtual Earth thus have licensing costs? I've looked and found this question: Virtual Earth or Google Maps and the TOS:…
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Bing Maps - how to link to a push pin from a link outside the map

I have a Virtual Earth Maps (Bing Maps??) to which I have added a set of pushpins. Each pushpin is labelled 1 to n. In addition to adding pushpins to the map, I also add text to the web-page that contains the description to each pushpin. I would…
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PolygonGeometry with offset?Or is there something off with the Mouse events?

I came across the weirdest situation while code-generating polygons and attaching them to a Virtual Earth 3D Globe Control. I have enabled mouse controls, as discussed on this thread in codeplex: http://bingmapswpf.codeplex.com/discussions/279548…
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Why does GetClusterShape return null when the cluster specification was retrieved through the GetClusteredShapes method?

Suppose I have a virtual earth shape layer called shapeLayer1 (my creative energy is apparently at an alltime low). When i call the GetClusteredShapes method I get an array of VEClusterSpecification objects that represent each and every one of my…
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Adding a push pin to a map using Javascript

How will I be able to put a pin using a click of my mouse? given this is the code: function AddPushpin() { var shape = new VEShape(VEShapeType.Pushpin, **map.GetCenter()**); shape.SetTitle('sample'); shape.SetDescription('This is…
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Google Map API vs MS virtual Earth API

I thought of using map in my blog. So which api will suit for me?? I am expecting that map should have more features. I dont know how to use it.. Sorry if my question is silly. I need docs of both. Please let me know??
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Smooth movement to ascend through the atmosphere

I'm moving through the atmosphere with Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D and I can descend smoothly, but I don't know the math to ascend smoothly. I'm descending like this: for(int curAlt = startAlt; curAlt < endAlt; curAlt--){ //do something …
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Data visualization with Virtual Earth and SQL

Scenario: I have a list of addresses (they have already been converted to lat/long) and the conference that the person attended. What I want: I want to add a circle shape to a Virtual Earth map that covers, let's say, 90% of the attendees to a…
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