Bing Maps in ASP.NET Core Maps Component

18 Nov 20181 minute to read

Bing Maps is a online Maps provider, owned by Microsoft. As like OSM, it provide Maps tile images based on our requests and combines those images into a single one to display Maps area.

Adding Bing Maps

Types of Bing Maps

Bing Maps provides different types of Maps and it is supported in the Maps component.

• Aerial - Displays satellite images to highlight roads and major landmarks for easy identification.
• AerialWithLabel - Displays aerial Maps with labels for the continent, country, ocean, etc.
• Road - Displays the default Maps view of roads, buildings, and geography.
• CanvasDark - Displays dark version of the road Maps.
• CanvasLight - Displays light version of the road Maps.
• CanvasGray - Displays grayscale version of the road Maps.

To render the light version of the road Maps, set the CanvasLight value is passed via the URL into the GetBingUrlTemplate method demonstrated in the following code sample.

Enabling zooming and panning

Bing Maps layer can be zoomed and panned. Zooming helps to get a closer look at a particular area on a Maps for in-depth analysis. Panning helps to move a Maps around to focus the targeted area.

Adding markers and navigation line

Adding sublayer

Enabling legend