New features of Virtual Earth 6.2
Microsoft Bing Maps also know as Virtual Earth. It offers the control behind Bing maps, which is an online mapping service that permit users to discover, search, plan, explore and share information about particular locations. By using, low-angle high-resolution, labeled aerial photographic sights, aerial photos, traditional road maps, and nearness searching ability, Bing maps offers exclusive chance for developers to include in location and local search features into their Web functions. The Bing Map Control (SDK) software development kit includes the complete set of reference topics that includes the Bing Maps application-programming interface (API).
There are new features in map control version 6.2 like better performance using Microsoft content delivery network (CDN) that allows Bing maps to host content to end users to develop the overall performance of the map control. By adding any HTML object to the map users can add custom layers by using the custom layer method.
By using clustering configuration method one can set the display and can cluster overlapping pushpins for better shape display at high altitudes. With hints for route instructions users can find route with hints of close by intersections and landmarks by using the VERouteItineraryItem.HintsProperty. Imagery metadata is very helpful for the users to get the information about the any imagery they are viewing on Virtual Earth. Virtual earth offers the facility to retrieve with labels in German, Italian, Spanish and French form Bing maps. There are also other features like base map disabling, 3D model import and updated interactive SDK which are easy.
Bing map control map is a Java script control that includes methods, objects and events that you require to display the maps that are powered by the Bing maps on your site. You should customize the map while loading and can specify the zoom level, location and map style of the map. To do this you can use the overloaded VEMap load map method function in the following way to surpass in the zoom level, no matter even if the map is locked, map mode, and how much of a title buffer to show around the map. After having a map on your page you can change the map programmatically. By this you can change the map style, can adjust the zoom level, hide the default navigation control and can also add you own controls to the map.
Changing the map view is the very easy thing to do as you can programmatically change the map view. You can zoom in or out the map in order to observe carefully, can change the amp style and can also leave it to Bing maps to determine the best map show that are based on your pushpins, points and polylines. Hiding and showing is the other method that you can use to hide and show the default control and can also form your own map navigation control in HTML then add the control to the map by calling the VEMap.AddControl Method. Using route and directions, getting route and changing the defaults are some other methods of the control map method.
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