Draw polyline with suggested driving directions given multiple points

Question

Hi

Info on what I'm trying to do:

A driver goes out to complete a list of jobs(Could be over 100).  Each job he completes we collect the lat/lon.  I know in what order the driver completed the jobs(Completed DateTime).

Can I somehow pass this data to bing service in order of lat/lon then draw the suggested route that would have been taken on silverlight map control?

Thanks

Paul

Answer 1

Yes, this can be done using the Bign Maps REST routing service. Note that you can have up to 25 waypoints in a single request to this service so you will need to make multiple requests and merge them together. I've actually made a tool for doing this for the Bing Maps V7 AJAX control which you could port over to .NET. You can find this tool here: http://bingmapsv7modules.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Route%20Service%20Helper

Also, you can find information on using the REST services in.NET here: http://rbrundritt.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/bing-maps-rest-service-net-libraries/

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Answer 2

Thanks Richard

I'll have a look at porting this to .NET, thanks for the work and tips.

Paul

Answer 3

Hi !

You are developing Bing Maps on Windows Phone, then you may find these apps helpfull for you:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wpapps/Bing-Maps-950491b9

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Using-Bing-Maps-in-Windows-d7edd3d1

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wpapps/Path-Finder-9cbfd6da