Virtual Earth - Finding a Postcode

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a-foton » Virtual Earth - Finding a Postcode — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:10:22 GMT

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re: Virtual Earth - Finding a Postcode

Ian Blackburn — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:15:53 GMT

Hi Mike,

I agree - so many devs I come across, see VE and say is that "google maps" which is frustrating! And then *they* get frustrated with the lack of IDE support and having to write JavaScript

Of course the VEJS project on codeplex can help with the intellisense JavaScript support in VS: http://codeplex.com/VEJS, or even better the VIEWS project (Virtual Earth Wrapper for Silverlight http://www.codeplex.com/views) lets you write managed code in Silverlight to control the map.

The forthcoming Silverlight control will definitely widen it's profile further and I believe there is one for asp.net too, which would be great to see.

Cheers

Ian

re: Virtual Earth - Finding a Postcode

Graham Russell — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:24:37 GMT

Hi Mike,

This works a treat but every time I view the page the maps defaults to America, and then re-navigates to the Post Code.

Is there anyway of using the LoadMap method to go directly to the PostCode? I'm assuming not as we need to Find the coordinates.

Just a thought...

Graham

re: Virtual Earth - Finding a Postcode

MikeOrmond — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:37:24 GMT

Hiya Graham. There's a couple of ways you can deal with this. Either use CSS to hide the map div until you have it centred where you want or specify a generic UK lat / lon in the LoadMap() method. You'll then see a map of the UK first before zooming / panning to the specific postcode. Mike

re: Virtual Earth - Finding a Postcode

MikeOrmond — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:39:56 GMT

Hi Ian. Yes, the VEJS stuff is incredibly useful. Haven't looked at VIEWS yes but will do now... :-). Thanks, Mike

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re: Virtual Earth - Finding a Postcode

Ian Blackburn — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:14:08 GMT

Hi Mike,

We have had a bit of fun with VIEWS creating "The amazing album cover atlas" here: http://theamazingalbumcoveratlas.org/

Source is here:

http://shrinkster.com/10io

Cheers

Ian

Virtual Earth - Finding Multiple Locations

Mike Ormond's Blog — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:31:45 GMT

Of course, once you've found one postcode , you find yourself a reason to find lots of them as Ashley