Web Components Displaying Imagery from Bing Maps
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The Web Components IgcBingMapsMapImagery is geographic imagery mapping service provided by Microsoft® company. It provides 3 styles of geographic imagery tiles of the world. This geographic imagery service is accessible directly on the www.bing.com/maps web site. The Ignite UI for Web Components map component can display geographic imagery from Bing Maps in the map’s background content using the IgcBingMapsMapImagery class.
Web Components Displaying Imagery from Bing Maps Example
Code Snippet
The following code snippet shows how to display geographic imagery tiles from Bing Maps in Web Components GeographicMap using IgcBingMapsMapImagery class.
Properties
The following table summarized properties of the IgcBingMapsMapImagery class:
| Property Name | Property Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
ApiKey | string | Represents the property for setting an API key required for the Bing Maps imagery service. You must obtain this key from the www.bingmapsportal.com website. |
ImageryStyle | BingMapsImageryStyle | Represents the property for setting the Bing Maps imagery tiles map style. This property can be set to the following BingMapsImageryStyle enumeration values:
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BingImageryRestUri | string | Represents the property for setting the Bing Imagery REST URI specifying where the TilePath and SubDomains will come from. This is an optional property, and if not specified it will use the default REST URI. |
CultureName | string | Represents a property for setting the culture name for the tile source. |
IsDeferredLoad | boolean | Represents the property that specifies whether or not the Bing Maps service should auto-initialized upon the assignment of valid property values. |
IsInitialized | boolean | Represents the property that is set to True occurs when geographic imagery tiles from Bing Maps service have been initialized and they are ready for rendering in the map component. |
SubDomains | IgcSubDomainsCollection | Represents an image collection of URI sub domains |
TilePath | string | Represents a property that sets the map tile image URI, this is the actual location of the Bing Maps |