This calendar week Microsoft released v8 of the JavaScript API for Bing Maps. The newest version of the API uses HTML5 to assistance homecoming vector information much quicker.
Bing Maps v8 every bit good introduces a publish of novel total features.
The novel core features added to the Bing Maps API are:
- Additional Map Styles - patch at that topographic point is a nighttime in addition to grayscale map manner available (but I can't notice whatsoever reference to them nonetheless inwards the documentation)
- Streetside Imagery - allows you lot to easily add together Bing Maps 360 flat panoramic imagery to your maps
- Vector Map Labels
- Text Data Generator
- Point Compression
As good every bit these total features Bing Maps has a publish of new modules (plug-ins):
- Autosuggest - dynamic automatic address suggestions for geo-searches
- Drawing Tools
- Clustering - automatic clustering for large numbers of map markers
- Heatmap - automatic heatmap generation from information points
- GeoJSON - import in addition to export of GeoJSON data
- Spatial Data Services - allows you lot to use Bing Spatial Data Services every bit the backend for your map data
- Spatial Maths - allows you lot to perform many GIS operations on your spatial data
The best agency to explore approximately of these novel features is inwards the Bing Maps Development Center.
The Bing Maps Development Center includes a actually useful gear upward of code examples for the Bing Maps API. All the code examples include a alive code editor which allows you lot to experiment amongst these novel features alive in addition to at nowadays encounter your code changes look on a Bing Map.
