Map Control WPF
Now you can present end users with your geospatial data in rich and interactive maps featuring panning, zooming, mouseover effects and tooltips.
Extensibly designed with events and properties enabling its more sophisticated behavior, xamMap™ is modularly designed around the following key components:
- Map Layers
- Navigational panes
- Color Swatch panes
- Scale panes
By using maps in a widely available, de facto standard format such as Shapefiles (.shp) or drawn from OpenGIS standards-based SQL extensions for geospatial data such as those supported by Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008, you can get started right away. Create stunning WPF mapping applications from polygon-based shapes (lots, states, countries), polyline-based shapes (roads, rivers, transmission lines), point-based shapes (cities, points of interest), geometry and geography data with ease. Map layers allow you to overlay your own value-added map elements.
Features at a Glance
- Map out anything and everything - With the explosive growth in business data tied to location, the new xamMap™ is an indispensible tool for creating rich mapping apps. Get an instant view and show anything including seating charts, floor plans, warehouse contents, and yes—geographic maps, too.
- Multi-Scale Image Support – Smoothly pan and zoom into multi-scale images to see increasing levels of detail in your maps with configurable support over optimizing the window animation mode.
- Customizable Layout - Design the layout of legends, the navigation pane and all other aspects of map layers and map elements to fit the application you are building.
- Color Model - Comprehensive color model and choropleth shading enable you to fulfill many common mapping scenarios such as mapping US states and counties, color-coding regions by rainfall amount or any other business data and scaling colors to the data value range.
- Geospatial Data Integration - Associate your own data sources (e.g., a .dbf file or Microsoft SQL Server 2008) with map elements. Geometry and geography data types are supported.
- Shapefile Format - Take advantage of the wealth of geographic information already published by government agencies and other bodies and leverage your own organization's business data.
Much of today's business intelligence is geographically correlated, and the WPF Map control displays this information to your end users in a simple and easy-to-read fashion.