Virtual Earth map control 3
We are very happy to announce the availability of Virtual Earth map control 3. This wonderful new control comes with several enhancements including new features such as simpler integration and better compatibility. These features are not available in its previous versions. Using Virtual Earth’s Find0 method, users can add a Where box to their application to let its users to input addresses, zip codes, landmarks, and other location and then easily pinpoint them on a map. Support to handle ambiguous addresses in also included.
Driving directions and Polylines are a great feature of Virtual Earth. With the help of these features, users are able to create their own customer Polylines to highlight key data on maps as well as images. Users can simply bind the data to pushpins making use of standard data format GeoRSS. You just need to point the control 1 at your GeoRSS file and it automatically manages the creating process of pop-ups and pushpins.
Users are able to quickly use our methods to create pushpins as well as pop-ups in the default style without designing them yourselves. Of course, the very famous and simple methods to roll your own are still there therefore, you need to have your choice from easy default styles to complete look and feel control. What is gone is as significant as what we have inserted. Virtual Earth’s search, routing and bird’s eye features are now no longer depend on proxies for operating rightly.
You just need to use simple methods such as Route and Find. The control is used with a single file that is referenced from our website. We also have a new cool tool called as new Interactive SDK, which allows users to learn about and research on the map control.
Just call the new, simple methods like Route and Find and they just work. And, the control can be used with just a single file referenced from your site. Gone are the days of different includes for style sheets, scripts, compatibility support, etc. Just include the control once and it does all the rest. With this new release of Virtual Earth, Virtual Earth ream also have expanded maps coverage as well as imagery including the bird’s eye outside the United States namely in the United Kingdom. We will constantly expand the bird’s eye coverage around the United States, United Kingdom and other areas, rolling our additional images on a normal basis.
We also have expanded road map, directions coverage to several countries. United Kingdom and Canada have main highway and city level details for routing and have routing on main highways and main roads. All new applications must be built on the Virtual Earth map control 3. However for those people, who are making use of Virtual Earth map control in your application, you will have much time to migrate over Virtual Earth map control 3. The Virtual Earth map control 2 continues to be accessible in the MSDN library archives. This new version of this map control can add a ton of functionality.
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