Does anybody know if the xamMap control can be easily used with the HERE maps tile API ?
https://developer.here.com/rest-apis/documentation/enterprise-map-tile/topics/overview.html
I would guess that most modern tile APIs are basically compatible, but as far as I know the 'default' tile APIs (e.g. Bing) that is supported by xamMap uses a Spherical Mercator projection. The HERE map tile API uses what they call a Normalized Mercator projection, but I don't know what the difference between these two projections really are.
Regards,Leif
Hello Leif,
I'm sorry for late reply but I got good news.
Yes, imagery tiles from the HERE provider are supported with some application code. I attached a sample app that shows how to implement XamMap support for most of tiles form the HERE imagery provider. Also, I added implementation for XamGeographicMap which is much better mapping control then XamMap. Note that some HERE imagery tiles (e.g. traffic overlay) are visible from a certain map zoom level so you might have to zoom in map.
Hi,
thanks for the reply and the code.
Due to a missing feature in XamGeographicMap - the ability to more freely control the viewport, I have to use XamMap. The issue is discussed her:
http://es.infragistics.com/community/forums/t/79755.aspx
Unless this missing feature (reported as a product idea according to the thread) has been recently implemented in XamGeographicMap, I can't use this control even though I would like to switch from XamMap.