SilverlightShow: How to extend Bing Maps Silverlight with an elevation profile graph - Part 1 Comments

RE: How to extend Bing Maps Silverlight with an elevation profile graph - Part 1

John — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:41:33 GMT

Wonder if there is a way to change the color of the buttons added to the navigation bar to make them more visible. Or just add a button to the right hand corner of the map.

RE: How to extend Bing Maps Silverlight with an elevation profile graph - Part 1

walterf — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:01:37 GMT

Hi,

part 2 is already on board ;-)

http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/How-to-extend-Bing-Maps-Silverlight-with-an-elevation-profile-graph-ndash-second-part.aspx

RE: How to extend Bing Maps Silverlight with an elevation profile graph - Part 1

Michael — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:47:28 GMT

Hi,

Great article. I've been looking for ages how to add to the Map Mode nav bar. Looking forward to part 2.

Cheers

RE: How to extend Bing Maps Silverlight with an elevation profile graph - Part 1

Daren May — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:20:37 GMT

We (Aspenware) built a very similar solution 18 months or so ago for an activity trackign application we were developing. We also provide it to Ride The Rockies to display the overall race route and the individual legs. For the 2010 Ride The Rockies web site, we upgrade the control to leverage Bing Maps Silverlight control. You can view it here: Ride The Rockies 2010 Route. We too use external sources to cross reference latitude and longitude to obtain altitude information. The Silverlight control for Bing Maps is a powerful control that provides a lot of opportunity for developing interesting applications with great data visualization.

RE: How to extend Bing Maps Silverlight with an elevation profile graph - Part 1

walterf — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:12:56 GMT

Hi Carl,
I'm happy to know that someone else is developing a similar application for more or less the same purpose. In fact I was thinking to something for cycling fanatics :-)

Regarding the elevation I not used the "Altitute" property of the ItineraryItem, because, as I read somewhere on msdn, it is reserved for future use. Instead, I use some free web services which provide elevation data coming from various GDEM (Global Digital Elevation Model) like ASTAR, STRM ecc.

The Part 2 of the article should be ready by the end of this week and in there you will find all the details of the method I used.

RE: How to extend Bing Maps Silverlight with an elevation profile graph - Part 1

Carl — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:33:55 GMT

What a coincidence I was writing a similar app this lunchtime as I want to track elevation for a community bike ride I'm doing. I'm using the routservice and was hoping to use the Altitude from each ItineraryItem within the Routleg collection but it looks like all values are zero. Is this the approach you are proposing to use?