CHAPTER 6

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Doing More with Bing Maps

So you have now learned to build your first Bing Map web application. You can display geodata on a Bing map using pushpins. You even learned how to draw some basic geometric shapes. Now it’s time for the fun stuff! Bing Maps can go so much further than the basic application we showed you in Chapter 5. Using Bing Maps REST (Representational State Transfer) Services, you’ll be able to calculate routes between waypoints, or query for traffic incidences and much more. The Bing Maps REST Services API consist of the following APIs:

  • Location API: Find a location based on an address or query
  • Elevations API: Returns ...

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