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Learning Bing Maps API. Bing Maps are a great resource and very versatile when you know how. And this book will show you how, covering everything from embedding on a web page to customizing with your own styles and geo-data

Learning Bing Maps API. Bing Maps are a great resource and very versatile when you know how. And this book will show you how, covering everything from embedding on a web page to customizing with your own styles and geo-data

Artan Sinani

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Provided as a part of Microsoft's Bing suite of search engines, Bing Maps is a web mapping service powered by the Bing Maps for Enterprise framework. The need for geospatial data has increased dramatically in the last few years. Adding a mapping context to any location-based data is becoming more and more common, and businesses are embracing it to improve their user experience with new data richness. Comprising of simple, follow-along examples, Learning Bing Maps API will show you how to use the many features of Bing Maps, from dropping a simple map on a web page, to fetching geospatial data from the Microsoft servers. Through the course of this book you will build a solid foundation for creating your own geo-applications.Following the hands-on recipes of this book, you will build a different web app in each chapter as you communicate with different APIs provided by Bing Maps. You will build your own library of JavaScript modules that talk to the Microsoft Maps API.You will create a custom theme for the map, with your own controls. Taking advantage of the global reach of Bing Maps, you will learn how to build a route scheduler for a delivery company in Madrid, Spain, and then you will discover how to create jobs on the Bing Maps servers for geocoding addresses in California, USA. By the end of the book you will have learned everything you need to know to embed a map on a web page, with your own geo-data, or data obtained by the Bing Map Services.
  • Learning Bing Maps API
    • Table of Contents
    • Learning Bing Maps API
    • Credits
    • About the Author
    • About the Reviewers
    • www.PacktPub.com
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        • Why Subscribe?
        • Free Access for Packt account holders
    • Preface
      • What this book covers
      • What you need for this book
      • Who this book is for
      • Conventions
      • Reader feedback
      • Customer support
        • Downloading the example code
        • Downloading the color images of this book
        • Errata
        • Piracy
        • Questions
    • 1. Introduction to Bing Maps AJAX Control Version 7
      • Bing Maps AJAX Control Version 7
      • Custom modules
      • Map events
      • Summary
    • 2. Diving into Bing Maps AJAX Control Version 7
      • Custom events
      • Pushpins
      • Polylines
      • Summary
    • 3. Introduction to Bing Maps REST Services
      • The application
      • Bing Maps REST resources
      • Summary
    • 4. Diving into Bing Maps REST Services
      • The application
      • The router module
      • The controller
      • The model
      • The proxy
      • The view
      • Displaying the route
      • Summary
    • 5. Spatial Data Services
      • Geocoding dataflow input data
      • The job
      • Getting job status
      • Getting job results
      • Parsing the geocode response
      • Websites
      • Summary
    • 6. Diving into Spatial Data Services
      • The project
      • Querying for postcodes
      • The locator
      • The controller
      • The client side
      • The stylesheet
      • Showing the data
      • Summary
    • 7. Enriching Bing Maps with Overlaying User Data
      • The data
      • The application
      • The poll
      • The shape
      • Rolling back the years
      • Summary
    • Index
  • Title: Learning Bing Maps API. Bing Maps are a great resource and very versatile when you know how. And this book will show you how, covering everything from embedding on a web page to customizing with your own styles and geo-data
  • Author: Artan Sinani
  • Original title: Learning Bing Maps API. Bing Maps are a great resource and very versatile when you know how. And this book will show you how, covering everything from embedding on a web page to customizing with your own styles and geo-data.
  • ISBN: 9781783550388, 9781783550388
  • Date of issue: 2013-11-22
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3cg6
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing