Populate Data

3 Sep 20205 minutes to read

This section describes on how to populate shape data for providing Data input to the Map control and usage of DataSource property.

Data Binding

The Maps control supports data binding with the DataSource property in the shape layers.

The following properties in shape layers are used for binding data in Maps control,

DataSource
ShapeIdPath
ShapeIdTableField

ItemsSource

The DataSource property accepts the collection values as input.

ShapeIdPath

The ShapeIDPath property refers the data ID in DataSource.

ShapeIdTableField

The ShapeIDTableField property is similar to the ShapeIDPath that refers to the column name in the data property of shape layers to identify the shape. When the values of the ShapeIDPath property in the DataSource property and the values of ShapeIDTableField in the data property match, the associated object from the DataSource is bound to the corresponding shape.

C#
SFShapeFileLayer layer = new SFShapeFileLayer();

layer.Uri = (NSString)NSBundle.MainBundle.PathForResource("usa_state", "shp");

layer.DataSource = GetDataSource();

layer.ShapeIDTableField = (NSString)"STATE_NAME";

layer.ShapeIDPath = (NSString)"State";

map.Layers.Add(layer);

Refer the following USA Election data which is used as items source.

NSMutableArray GetDataSource()

{

NSMutableArray array = new NSMutableArray();

array.Add(getDictionary("Alabama", "Romney", 9));

array.Add(getDictionary("Alaska", "Romney", 3));

array.Add(getDictionary("Arizona", "Romney", 11));

array.Add(getDictionary("Arkansas", "Romney", 6));

array.Add(getDictionary("California", "Romney", 55));

array.Add(getDictionary("Colorado", "Obama", 9));

array.Add(getDictionary("Connecticut", "Obama", 7));

array.Add(getDictionary("Delaware", "Obama", 3));

array.Add(getDictionary("District of Columbia", "Obama", 3));

array.Add(getDictionary("Florida", "Obama", 29));

array.Add(getDictionary("Georgia", "Obama", 16));

array.Add(getDictionary("Hawaii", "Romney", 4));

array.Add(getDictionary("Idaho", "Obama", 4));

array.Add(getDictionary("Illinois", "Romney", 20));

array.Add(getDictionary("Indiana", "Obama", 11));

array.Add(getDictionary("Iowa", "Romney", 6));

array.Add(getDictionary("Kansas", "Obama", 6));

array.Add(getDictionary("Kentucky", "Romney", 8));

array.Add(getDictionary("Louisiana", "Romney", 8));

array.Add(getDictionary("Maine", "Romney", 4));

array.Add(getDictionary("Maryland", "Obama", 10));

array.Add(getDictionary("Massachusetts", "Obama", 11));

array.Add(getDictionary("Michigan", "Obama", 16));

array.Add(getDictionary("Minnesota", "Obama", 10));

array.Add(getDictionary("Mississippi", "Obama", 6));

array.Add(getDictionary("Missouri", "Obama", 10));

array.Add(getDictionary("Montana", "Romney", 3));

array.Add(getDictionary("Nebraska", "Romney", 5));

array.Add(getDictionary("Nevada", "Romney", 6));

array.Add(getDictionary("New Hampshire", "Obama", 4));

array.Add(getDictionary("New Jersey", "Obama", 14));

array.Add(getDictionary("New Mexico", "Obama", 5));

array.Add(getDictionary("New York", "Obama", 29));

array.Add(getDictionary("North Carolina", "Romney", 15));

array.Add(getDictionary("North Dakota", "Romney", 3));

array.Add(getDictionary("Ohio", "Obama", 18));

array.Add(getDictionary("Oklahoma", "Romney", 7));

array.Add(getDictionary("Oregon", "Obama", 7));

array.Add(getDictionary("Pennsylvania", "Obama", 20));

array.Add(getDictionary("Rhode Island", "Obama", 4));

array.Add(getDictionary("South Carolina", "Romney", 9));

array.Add(getDictionary("South Dakota", "Romney", 3));

array.Add(getDictionary("Tennessee", "Romney", 11));

array.Add(getDictionary("Texas", "Romney", 38));

array.Add(getDictionary("Utah", "Romney", 6));

array.Add(getDictionary("Vermont", "Obama", 3));

array.Add(getDictionary("Virginia", "Obama", 13));

array.Add(getDictionary("Washington", "Obama", 12));

array.Add(getDictionary("West Virginia", "Romney", 5));

array.Add(getDictionary("Wisconsin", "Obama", 10));

array.Add(getDictionary("Wyoming", "Romney", 3));

return array;
}

NSDictionary getDictionary(string name, string type, int index)

{

NSString name1 = (NSString)name;

object[] objects = new object[3];

object[] keys = new object[3];

keys.SetValue("State", 0);

keys.SetValue("Candidate", 1);

keys.SetValue("Electors", 2);

objects.SetValue(name1, 0);

objects.SetValue(type, 1);

objects.SetValue(index, 2);

return NSDictionary.FromObjectsAndKeys(objects, keys);

}