Our application will be operating in a standalone/offline environment. It just so happens that we have access to a NASA World Wind map server.
Has anyone been able to get the xamGeographicMap control to work with a NASA World Wind map server? Intuition tells me it should be able to, but I don't want to go and reinvent the wheel if there is a working example I can pull from.
Any and all help is appreciated.
Hello Kristopher,
Thank you for your post. I have asked our development team to give me more details if the functionality you want can be achieved and I will update you as soon as they reply to me.
Thank you for your patience.
We did not try to get the xamGeographicMap control to work with a NASA World Wind map server. However, you should be able to do so by creating custom tile imagery source for NASA imagery and then binding it to the GeographicMap control's background content. You can find an example how to do this in WPF samples browser under: GeographicMap -> Data -> Creating Geo-imagery sample. You should either create multiple custom tile imagery sources for different sources of NASA imageries (e.g. BMNG, elevation data, I3 data http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/server/readme.html) or create one custom tile imagery source that has a property that determines what type of NASA imagery to load. If you need to display NASA imagery from multiple sources (e.g. elevation data and I3 data), you can overlay multiple imagery tiles using the Geographic Tile Imagery Series which has TileImagery property that can be bound to your custom imagery tile source(s). In addition, the Geographic Tile Imagery Series has option to clip tile imagery by a contours of a shapefile or list of list of points (geolocations) such that you limit boundary of tile imagery and thus increase performance of GeographicMap control and decrease number of requests for loading NASA imagery tiles. You can find an example how to use the Geographic Tile Imagery Series in WPF samples browser under: GeographicMap -> Display -> Geographic Tile Imagery Series sample.
Let me know if you have other questions about the GeoMap control.
Thanks,
Martin