Abstract
Windows Phone 8 ships with a new Maps control that is available in the Microsoft.Phone.Maps.Controls namespace. The Bing Maps control was browser-based and rendered in design mode. The new Map control is partially implemented in unmanaged code and therefore does not render in the Visual Studio designer. The new Map control is the same control used in the built-in applications, and it takes advantage of the new map platform that is included with the Windows Phone 8 OS. A nice design-time experience is certainly a plus, but the trade-offs in this case are well worth the price of admission. Some features enabled by the new control include offline map sharing, more responsive gestures, and vector-based high-frame-rate rendering.
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If I wrote that method, I’d just send them out in a western direction and route them around the globe back to their starting point. That’s probably why I don't write mapping software.
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Eight chapters in and I’m just now using the word ingredients . . .?
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“I invented ‘It’s a good thing’ before you were even born.” —Martha Stewart
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It’s not entirely my fault. The sample for the MapsTask on MSDN sets the SearchTerm to coffee.
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Lalonde, L., Totzke, D.R. (2013). Maps, Location, and Routing. In: Windows Phone 8 Recipes. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5903-9_8
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