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A New Route for Bing Maps Developers
About 9 years ago, I started a little MapPoint Web Service blog targeted at helping Enterprise customers and developers build geospatial applications. Having run the consulting arm of Vicinity...
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Learn How to Create Heat Maps in Native Windows Store Apps
Find out how I came up with a solution for creating heat maps in native Windows Store apps and document the reusable library that I created. Heat maps, also known as density maps, are a type of overlay...
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Learn How to Create a Location-aware Windows Store App (Unabridged version)
Are you developing a location-based Windows Store app using web or managed programming languages? Do you need help with how to get started?A new eBook entitled, Location Intelligence for Windows Store...
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How to Create Custom Shapes in Windows Store Apps (C#)
In the Bing Maps SDK for Windows Store Apps there are five main types of data that you can add to the map: Pushpin, MapPolyline, MapPolygon, MapTileLayer, and UIElements. UIElements can be added to the...
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How to Create a Customer Ranked Auto Suggest with Bing Maps and Azure Mobile...
From time to time I come across developers who want to have an auto suggest search box to use with their map. Your first thought might be to simply use the Bing Maps geocoding services to do this,...
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Geo-fencing with Bing Spatial Data Services and Azure Mobile Services
Triggering certain actions such as sending notifications or alerts when a device enters or leaves an area is often referred to as geo-fencing. The geo-fence, the boundary of the area of interest, can...
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Image Overlays with Bing Maps (Native)
A while back I wrote a blog posts called Image Overlays with Bing Maps (JavaScript). In this blog post we saw a couple of different ways to overlay an image on the map and bind it to a bounding box...
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Staying Fit with Bing Maps
I just feel better when I have a certain level of fitness. So, I came up with the idea of the ‘Donkey Bike’. The idea was to create a virtual trip to visit my parents in Germany and track the progress...
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Bing Spatial Data Services Meets 3D
At //build 2014 there were many exciting announcements. It would have been easy to miss one of the implications of the moment of glory for Internet Explorer 11 during the keynote on day 1. The demo of...
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Visualize Large Complex Data with Local Tile Layers in Bing Maps Windows...
Tile Layers are a creative way to visualize large complex data. By visualizing data as an image the map control only needs to reposition a set of images rather than every single data point of the data....
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How to Save and Share Map Screenshots in Windows Store Apps (.NET)
A while ago I wrote a blog post on How to Share Maps Using the Search Charm in Windows Store Apps. In that blog post we made use of the Bing Maps REST Imagery service to generate a static image of the...
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How to Create Nicely Formatted Directions in Bing Maps Windows Store apps (.NET)
Not long after the Bing Maps Windows Store apps SDK was first released we published a blog post on how to calculate and display routes. We created a simple input form to allow the user to enter a start...
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Bing Maps Styling Improvements Now Live!
Today, we are pleased to announce several rendering and styling improvements to Bing Maps on http://www.bing.com/maps to enhance aesthetics and usability.Gradient Land ColorWe introduced a new gradient...
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Announcing New Features and Cities Added to the Bing Maps Apps for Windows 8
Back in December, we rolled out the Bing Maps Preview app for Windows 8.1. The app introduced a new way to explore the world in glorious 3D, more personal features and a streamlined design to help you...
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How to Launch Maps in a Universal App
At the Microsoft //Build/ Conference last April, the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK (WP8.1) was released as a preview. With the release of this SDK one of the new templates added to Visual Studios now allows...
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