Hi
Is there any other way to display maps other than using shape files and how to get the attribute name of the shape file ie (for using in data mapping)....
How is the map geometry that you want to use represented? Images? Multi resolution Images? Polygons? If multi resolution images you could experiment with creating a class that inherits from MapTileSource to specify as the maptilesource of the map.
In terms of databinding, you can bind a data source to the map, as long as you can correlate its items with some attribute of the elements in the shapefile. see: http://help.infragistics.com/Help/NetAdvantage/DV/2009.2/CLR3.5/html/SL_DV_xamWebMap_Bind_to_Data_with_xamWebMap.html
In terms of non shapefile input, the options available now are to build your own map layer manually by manipulating map elements: http://help.infragistics.com/Help/NetAdvantage/DV/2009.2/CLR3.5/html/SL_DV_xamWebMap_About_Map_Elements.html
Or you can use the currently supported Geo-Imagery data sources. I'll try to acertain if there are any other options, currently.
-Graham
hi
actually i have to use my own maps say for example map of oil refineries or map of university etc...in that case whether i have to use only shape file of the university,oil refineries or is there any other way to do this and i need to bind the data from some other source not from the dbf file.
thanks
You can also use the 9.2 map with GeoImagery sources, see: http://help.infragistics.com/Help/NetAdvantage/DV/2009.2/CLR3.5/html/xamWebMap_About_Geo-Imagery.html
I'm assuming you mean how do you discover the attribute names in the dbf file for databinding. One way is just to open up the file, and even though its a binary format, you can pretty easily pick out the attribute names. The other way would be to use a tool for shapefiles that allows you to examine and change this data. see: http://help.infragistics.com/Help/NetAdvantage/DV/2009.2/CLR3.5/html/SL_DV_xamWebMap_Creating_and_Editing_Custom_Shapefiles.html
Does this answer your questions?