Class MVBingTileLayer

MVBingTileLayer defines a map tile layer that displays Microsoft Bing map tiles using Bing Maps Javascript API.

To use Bing maps as a map tile layer, your usage of the maps must meet the Terms of Service defined by Microsoft. You must create a Bing Maps Developer Account and create a Bing Maps key for your application before you can display Bing Maps with this class. Please refer to this link for more information about creating Bing Maps Developer Account and aquiring Bing Maps key.

As shown in the following example, in your application, you must call #setKey to set your Bing Maps key right after the MVBingTileLayer object is created.

     var tileLayer = new MVBingTileLayer() ;
     tileLayer.setKey("your Bing Maps key") ;

In your application web page, you must use a script tag to import Bing Maps API library as shown below.

<script charset="UTF-8" type="text/javascript" src="http://ecn.dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=6.2"></script>

Class Summary
Constructor Attributes	Constructor Name and Description
	MVBingTileLayer(mapType, key, library)

Field Summary
Field Attributes	Field Name and Description
<static> <constant>	MVBingTileLayer.TYPE_HYBRID Hybrid map type.
<static> <constant>	MVBingTileLayer.TYPE_ROAD Road map type.
<static> <constant>	MVBingTileLayer.TYPE_SATELLITE Aerial/Satellite map type.
<static> <constant>	MVBingTileLayer.TYPE_SHADED Shaded map type.

Method Summary
Method Attributes	Method Name and Description
	getMapType() This method gets the current map type, which can be one of the following predefined Bing map styles, VEMapStyle.Road, VEMapStyle.Shaded, VEMapStyle.Aerial and VEMapStyle.Hybrid.
	setKey(key) This method sets the Bing Maps key that you've obtained for your application.
	setMapType(mapType) This method sets the type of the map, which can be one of the following predefined Bing map styles, VEMapStyle.Road, VEMapStyle.Shaded, VEMapStyle.Aerial and VEMapStyle.Hybrid.

Class Detail

MVBingTileLayer(mapType, key, library)

Parameters:
{mapType} mapType: your bing Maps type.
{key} key: your bing Maps key.
{libURL} library: library URL if it is different from the default bing map library URL.

Returns:: The newly created MVBingTileLayer object.

Field Detail

<static> <constant> MVBingTileLayer.TYPE_HYBRID

Hybrid map type.

<static> <constant> MVBingTileLayer.TYPE_ROAD

Road map type.

<static> <constant> MVBingTileLayer.TYPE_SATELLITE

Aerial/Satellite map type.

<static> <constant> MVBingTileLayer.TYPE_SHADED

Shaded map type.

Method Detail

getMapType()

This method gets the current map type, which can be one of the following predefined Bing map styles, VEMapStyle.Road, VEMapStyle.Shaded, VEMapStyle.Aerial and VEMapStyle.Hybrid.

Returns:: the current map type

{void} setKey(key)

This method sets the Bing Maps key that you've obtained for your application.

Parameters:
{String} key: your Bing Maps key.

Returns:: none

{void} setMapType(mapType)

This method sets the type of the map, which can be one of the following predefined Bing map styles, VEMapStyle.Road, VEMapStyle.Shaded, VEMapStyle.Aerial and VEMapStyle.Hybrid.

Parameters:
{VEMapStyle} mapType: the VEMapStyle constant that specifies the map style.

Returns:: None

Global Variables

Classes

Class MVBingTileLayer