Microsoft Bing Maps

Microsoft Bing Maps provides worldwide in high quality and continuous expanding online map data such as satellite and aerial images, road maps and extensive address databses (geocoding). The access to these geo data is integrated in WinGIS as a module and works transaction based.

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Working with Microsoft Bing Maps

The access to the map data of Microsoft Bing Maps occurs online and transaction based (1 transaction = 8 image tiles with 256x256 pixels). To activate the access to Bing Maps you order a number of transactions to get your personal Bing Maps account (login data).   Image tiles which are were already loaded keeps stored for 24 hours on the harddisk (cache). Therefor the online access and the transaction counting is limited to new image tiles only. Bing Maps provides continuous expanding and worldwide available map data like satellite images, im wide areas available aerial images with a resolution up to 30cm (e.g. in Europe, North America and also most of the urban regions worldwide), road maps and hybrid maps (aerial images with labels and overlayed road map).

An automatic map mode selects for a specific region and the current scale the ideal map style

Bing Maps Geocoder

The extensive Bing Maps online address database enables the WinGIS integrated Geocoder module to convert an address information (e.g. city, street, street number) to the corresponding coordinate (address search).

• Input a desired query text (city, address)
• Select an address from the result list
• Locate the exact coordinate by setting a point / symbol or by zooming to the map area



 

Database Geocoder




The Bing Maps DB-Geocoder module converts addresses of entire database tables to the corresponding coordinates. After selection of the database (e.g. MS Access mdb file), the table and the query fields (e.g. street, city, country), for every record an online transaction converts the address to a coordinate and adds  X and Y fields to the table. Therefore you get an easy and efficient possibility to locate and visualize your personal database content (e.g. customer databases).

WinGIS map projects can be converted to XML files. Each layer in the WinGIS project including the attribute information (e.g. records in the IDB – WinGIS internal database) corresponds to one XML file. These geo data can be combined / overlayed with the web based PROGIS Bing Maps Silverlight in order to publish them on a web server. The Bing Maps Silverlight Control supports extended views and map styles like „Streetside“ - View „Bird’s eye“ – View ... and also searching and routing functionalities.

 



 

Implementation and hosting as PROGIS MapServer or „Clould“ service („Cloud-GIS“) on request.





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