I am using Arcgis WPF, I am wondering if I could load an image as the map in my application? If it is possible, could you please tell me how to achieve it?
Thanks.
You can use ImageServer for the imagery files, and if the image is an .jpeg or .png and is non georeferenced, then you can use ArcMap to make it a map service (tiled map service or dynamic map service) and then use that map service in your code. You can go to ArcGIS online forums for WPF for more information
Is it satellite imagery or just an image? What API are you using?
If it is just an image, you can use a Graphics Layer and add the image as a graphic. With this approach, you can give it whatever lat/lon makes sense for your spatial reference.
If you have satellite imagery, you want to add it as a Raster layer (ArcGIS for Desktop/Engine) or a Tiled Map Service (WPF/Silverlight APIs). If you are using the WPF API's (and not ArcGIS Engine) then this requires access to ArcGIS Server to publish a map service.
I recommend reading through the API documentation as it is well documented.
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I want to implement a custom map scaling connected to a database. Similar to the map view on the Rentfaster website. Also, the RentFaster website uses Google Maps, however, I will be implementing this on Bing Maps
Where would be the best place to start off? And what would is the technical name of such a custom feature?
From the screenshots, it looks like the feature you're looking for is pushpin clustering, and can be seen in the interactive SDK here: https://www.bing.com/api/maps/sdkrelease/mapcontrol/isdk/clusteringmeanaverage
If you need hosting of your spatial data, check out the spatial data services module on the same page.
The docs are not clear on this as they mention fov and viewport suggesting a portion of the entire spherical image.
Does the Google Street View API support retrieving the entire 360 degree equi-rectangular (lat/lon) image?
No, but you could download separate panorama tiles and pack them together of use a third party tool (ex: https://istreetview.com/) and get the entire 360 degree image.
Another option would be to code the above functionality by yourself by using Google StreetView Image API (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/streetview/intro). To be honest, I did not try this myself, but through the API you should be able to retrieve all parts of the image and then stitch it back into equirectangular panorama.
This might give you more info:
How to get the original panorama image by panoid in google street view?
EDIT: While searching a way to overcome the fact that Google StreetView app doesn;t work as marketed, I found another third party service able to retrieve photos https://gothru.co/
It is possible by making use of the FOV and heading options within the API.
Take particular note of the heading param.
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=640x640&location=51.52551,-0.08853&fov=120&heading=0&key=YOUR_KEY
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=640x640&location=51.52551,-0.08853&fov=120&heading=120&source=outdoor&key=YOUR_KEY
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=640x640&location=51.52551,-0.08853&fov=120&heading=240&key=YOUR_KEY
By making these three separate API calls you will receive the 360 image sliced into three parts.
You can then use something like node blend to combine them and voila you have a 360 panoramic image!
I'm very new to Silverlight so bear with me. I need to implement a web page with a zoom-able map of Europe. I need the map to contain pushpins or such like which are generated from a database of lon/lat locations.
If the user hovers over a pin then some data should appear about the location and then if the user clicks on a location and be given detailed information (images, text and other live data) next to the map. Originally I was looking at google maps or bing but as this is to be used commercially and is not going to be public, I am unable to use them for licencing reasons.
I've looked into using deepzoom, which seems perfect but I cannot find any decent ways of adding the pushpins.
So essentially can anyone suggest a tool to allow me to make a zoomable map (I can supply a map image) which can have pushpins generated which can be selected by the user through highlight or click
Many thanks,
Cap
Use Bing Maps Silverlight Control.
Here is preview from Microsoft.
You need Developers Account for using it. Account is free. You can get it here.
Bing Maps control is simple to use, supports pushpins and deep zoom.
I am planning to use Silverlight control for bing map. It will be used in a ASP.Net website.
Note: I am new to Silverlight and Bing map.
How the Silverlight bing map control will behave? Will the bing map service be called from the client browser or the web server?
Is there any architecture diagram related to this?
Please help.
Thanks
Lijo Cheeran Joseph
A good place to start is on the following link:
http://www.microsoft.com/maps/product/faq.aspx
I do not know about any architecture diagrams. With the Silverlight control (the preferred control at this point, over the old AJAX control), the map service is called from the client browser...it is called from within the Silverlight application that hosts the map control, which like all Silverlight applications, runs exclusively on the client.
You could make calls to the Bing web services server-side, then use that data in some way, but if you're going after an interactive map, you will want the Silverlight control.
I am using Silverlight 3 and I am trying to take a screenshot of esri map.
I was able to take a screenshot and save as a file for silverlight controls, but when I try to access Esri map image, I get "Pixel access not allowed" error. I heard this is because of different domain (I am trying to get map image on the client side, and map image is not accessible at server side in my silverlight application).
So I am trying to find a function from esri so that I can save the map image as a file.
does anybody know how to do this? or any other way around?
I am using a script from the Code Gallery for both printing and exporting map images.
The script requires a little bit of tweaking to get it to work (plus you need to dig a little bit into WCF and self-hosted services), but it has been working great for several months now. You can see it in action at our web site.