Learning Bing Maps API

Artan Sinani

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781783550371
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Web Development
• Index: Computer Science

In Detail

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.

Approach

This is a practical, hands-on guide with illustrative examples, which will help you explore the vast universe of Bing maps.

Who this book is for

If you are a developer who wants to learn how to exploit the numerous features of Bing Maps then this book is ideal for you. It can also be useful for more experienced developers who wish to explore other areas of the APIs. It is assumed that you have some knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. For some chapters a working knowledge of .Net and Visual Studio is also needed.

Learning Bing Maps API

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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

Learning Bing Maps API

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Credits

Author

Artan Sinani

Reviewers

Thomas M. Anderson

Adrian Cox

Seth Richards

Acquisition Editors

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Commissioning Editor

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Technical Editors

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Cover Work

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About the Author

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.

This book would not have been written without the help and understanding of my wife, Sonia, and son, Mattias, who put up patiently with me writing during family time. I would like to thank my parents Vasil and Elsa, sister Sara, and brother David, who have supported and inspired me throughout my life.

I would like to thank my colleagues—first and foremost—Adrian, who is a also a technical reviewer of this book, for all his help and understanding; Ivana Mogin, Barnaby Oswald, Alex Oswald, and all the great people at LDC, who gave me the opportunity to work with great technologies.

About the Reviewers

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.

I would like to thank my family and friends.

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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Preface

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...

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