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Table of Contents
Learning Bing Maps API
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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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
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Author
Artan Sinani
Reviewers
Thomas M. Anderson
Adrian Cox
Seth Richards
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Artan Sinani is a Web Developer living between London and a small town in the north-west of Spain.
Currently, he works as a Senior Developer at Local Data Company, where he uses his passion for good design and clean programming to build beautiful interfaces, including geospatial data visualizations.
He hacks open source code at github.com/artisinani and blogs at lugolabs.com.
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Thomas M. Anderson is a Software Engineer by trade, autodidact by leisure, and a self-proclaimed tinkerer. He studied Computer Science and Jazz percussion at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, and web designing and development for another two years at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida. When not behind a computer screen, he can be found making music, reading a good book, or pondering over countless questions that need answers.
He has been with his current employer and second family, Punchkick Interactive, for over three years. Punchkick Interactive is a full-service mobile marketing agency, and a leader within the mobile development industry.
Adrian Cox is a Software Development Manager with over 15 years of commercial experience. He is still very much hands on with development and system design, and stays up-to-date with the latest technologies.
Seth Richards has over 10 years of professional software development experience. He got his start by programming embedded devices for the bar and nightclub industry and transitioned to web application development six years ago. In the past, he has worked on web-based enterprise-grade geographic information system applications. Seth is currently a Senior Software Engineer for a Massachusetts-based company that provides process automation, work automation, and document management solutions. You can follow him on twitter@shrichards, or view his blog at http://blog.shrichards.com
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When I first started working with the Bing Maps APIs, I was amazed at how easy it was to drop a map on a web page with just a few lines of code. Then I started changing the way the map looked; then I added some pushpins to show points of interest, and inevitably changed the way the pin...
