What can you do in the Virtual Earth SDK...here's what!
Okay so just a short post this one, wanted to highlight to you all the cool features in Virtual Earth that a colleague Vikas Arora highlighted to me. Imagine how these can add colour and stickiness to your website with the Virtual Earth SDK:
I want to:
Show a map
Show the default map
Show a specific map
Use a callback
Show a 3D map
Control the map
Zoom in
Zoom out
Zoom to level 15
Set center
Set center and zoom
Set the map view
Set the map style
Get the map style
Pan the map
Pan the map to a LatLong
Work with 3D maps
Switch modes (2D-3D)
Set the map view
Get the map view
Continuous pan (5 seconds)
Set alt., heading, and pitch
Get alt., heading, and pitch
Hide the 3D nav control
Show the 3D nav control
Show/hide controls
Hide the nav control
Show the nav control
Hide the 3D nav control
Show the 3D nav control
Add a custom control
Remove a custom control
Show the find control
Hide the find control
Use pushpins
Add a default pushpin
Add a custom pushpin
Delete a specific pushpin
Delete all pushpins
Use a callback
Find information
Find a location
Find nearby
Find both what and where
Use default disambiguation
Use custom disambiguation
Get a route and directions
Get a route
Show the directions
Switch to quickest and km
Delete the route
Draw lines and polygons
Draw a polygon
Draw a thin blue line
Draw a thick red line
Delete last polyline/polygon
Delete all polylines/polygons
Use pushpin layers
Add a GeoRSS layer
Add a VECollection layer
Hide a layer
Show a layer
Delete a layer
Use custom tile layers
Add a tile layer (opacity=0.5)
Add a tile layer (opacity=1.0)
Add a tile layer (opacity=0.3)
Delete the tile layer
Use birds eye images
Show a specific image
Change the orientation
Get a neighboring image
Get scene info
Get map info
GetTop
GetLeft
Get center LatLong
Convert pixel to LatLong
Convert LatLong to pixel
GetVersion
What's new in the latest release?
All this available at the Virtual Earth SDK site at:
https://dev.live.com/virtualearth/sdk/
Enjoy!