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Bing Maps in Angular Maps component

24 Aug 2021 / 4 minutes to read

Bing maps is a online map provider owned by Microsoft. As like OSM, it provides map tile images based on our requests and combines those images into a single one to display the map area.

Adding Bing Maps

The Bing Maps can be rendered by setting the layerType property as ”Bing” and the key for the Bing Maps must be set in the key property. The Bing Maps key can be obtained from here.

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import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-container',
    template:
    `<ejs-maps id='rn-container' style="display:block">
     <e-layers>
    <e-layer [layerType] = 'layerType' [bingMapType] = 'bingMapType' [key]='key'></e-layer>
    </e-layers>
    </ejs-maps>`
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
    public layerType: string;
    public bingMapType: string;
     public key: string;
    ngOnInit(): void {
           this.layerType = 'Bing';
           this.bingMapType = 'AerialWithLabel';
           this.key = '//..bingmapkey';
    }
}

Specify Bing map key in the key property.

Types of Bing maps

Bing Maps provides different types of maps and it is supported in the Maps control.

  • Aerial - Displays satellite images to highlight roads and major landmarks for easy identification.
  • AerialWithLabel - Displays aerial map with labels for the continent, country, ocean, etc.
  • Road - Displays the default map view of roads, buildings, and geography.
  • CanvasDark - Displays dark version of the road maps.
  • CanvasLight - Displays light version of the road maps.
  • CanvasGray - Displays grayscale version of the road maps.

To render the light version of the road maps, set the bingMapType to CanvasLight as demonstrated in the following code sample.

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import { Component, OnInit} from '@angular/core';

@Component({
selector: 'app-container',
template:
`<ejs-maps id='rn-container' style="display:block">
 <e-layers>
<e-layer [layerType] = 'layerType' [bingMapType] = 'bingMapType' [key]='key'></e-layer>
</e-layers>
</ejs-maps>`
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
public layerType: string;
public bingMapType: string;
public key: string;
ngOnInit(): void {
       this.layerType = 'Bing';
       this.bingMapType = 'CanvasLight';
       this.key = '//..bingmapkey';
}
}

Specify Bing maps key in the key property.

Zooming and panning

Bing maps layer can be zoomed and panned. Zooming helps to get a closer look at a particular area on a map for in-depth analysis. Panning helps to move a map around to focus the targeted area.

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import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Maps, Zoom } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-maps';
Maps.Inject(Zoom);
@Component({
  selector: 'app-container',
  template: `
<ejs-maps id="rn-container" [zoomSettings]="zoomSettings" style="display:block">
  <e-layers>
    <e-layer [layerType]="layerType" [key]="key" [bingMapType]="bingMapType"></e-layer>
  </e-layers>
</ejs-maps>
  `
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
  public layerType: string;
  public zoomSettings: object;
  public bingMapType: string;
  public key: string;
  ngOnInit(): void {
this.layerType = 'Bing';
this.bingMapType = 'CanvasLight';
this.key = '//..bingmapkey';
this.zoomSettings = {
  enable: true
};
  }
}

Specify Bing map key in the key property.

Adding markers and navigation line

Markers can be added to the layers of Bing maps by setting the corresponding location’s coordinates of latitude and longitude using markerSettings property. Navigation lines can be added on top of an Bing maps layer for highlighting a path among various places by setting the corresponding location’s coordinates of latitude and longitude in the navigationLineSettings property.

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import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Maps, Zoom, Marker, NavigationLine } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-maps';

Maps.Inject(Zoom, Marker, NavigationLine);
@Component({
  selector: 'app-container',
  template: `
<ejs-maps id="rn-container" style="display:block" [zoomSettings]="zoomSettings" [centerPosition]="centerPosition">
  <e-layers>
    <e-layer [layerType]="layerType" [bingMapType]="bingMapType" [key]="key" [markerSettings]="markerSettings" [navigationLineSettings]="navigationLineSettings"></e-layer>
  </e-layers>
</ejs-maps>
  `
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
  public layerType: string;
  public bingMapType: string;
  public key: string;
  public zoomSettings: object;
  public centerPosition: object;
  public markerSettings: object;
  public navigationLineSettings: object;
  ngOnInit(): void {
this.layerType = 'Bing';
this.bingMapType = 'CanvasLight';
this.key = '//..bingmapkey';
this.zoomSettings = {
  zoomFactor: 4
};
this.centerPosition = {
  latitude: 29.394708,
  longitude: -94.954653
};
this.markerSettings = [
  {
    visible: true,
    height: 25,
    width: 15,
    dataSource: [
      {
        latitude: 34.06062,
        longitude: -118.330491,
        name: 'California'
      },
      {
        latitude: 40.724546,
        longitude: -73.850344,
        name: 'New York'
      }
    ]
  }
];
this.navigationLineSettings = [
{
    visible: true,
    color: 'blue',
    width: 5,
    angle: 0.1,
    latitude: [34.06062, 40.724546],
    longitude: [-118.330491, -73.850344]
}];
  }
}

Specify Bing map key in the Key property.

Sublayer

Any GeoJSON shape can be rendered as a sublayer on top of the Bing maps layer for highlighting a particular continent or country in Bing maps by adding another layer and specifying the type property of maps layer to ”SubLayer“.

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