Monthly Archives: June 2011
Creating a Custom Bing Maps Scale Bar (A.K.A. “Yes, but how many Space Needles is that?”)
Earlier in the year, during the Microsoft MVP summit, myself and a group of fellow delegates spent a very enjoyable Sunday afternoon sightseeing around Seattle (although February in Seattle was a bit cold for Soul Solutions’ John O’Brien, who is … Continue reading
Geodesics on Bing Maps v7
This month’s MSDN magazine has an article describing how to create curved lines on the Bing Maps AJAX control. While I don’t want to criticise the author at all, there are two comments I would make on the article: Firstly, … Continue reading
Adding a Touch of Style to Vector Shapes on Bing Maps
In addition to their obvious functional purpose, maps can be objects of great aesthetic beauty. On my bookshelf I have a book (The Map Book, by Peter Barber) full of beautiful illustrations of maps throughout history, such as these: Perhaps … Continue reading
Importing Spatial Data to SQL Server with OGR2OGR–now even easier!
A few months back, I posted an article explaining how to import spatial data into SQL Server 2008 from any format supported by the OGR library (including ESRI shapefiles, GML, and TIGER data), using OGR2OGR. That article was written using … Continue reading
Alastair Aitchison 