![]() ![]() WMS servers, in contrast, create map images of (potentially) variable height and width, covering the features in the geographic area specified by a supplied bounding box. There’s an excellent MSDN article that explains the Bing Maps Tile System in more detail, so I won’t bother repeating it here. The following tile, for example, has the quadkey 120200223312: ![]() Each tile is referred to by its quadkey – a unique string consisting of characters between 0 – 3, which describes the position and zoom level at which this tile should be placed. If you want to see how to access a WMS server using the Bing Maps Silverlight control, please see my other post.īing Maps are created from sets of image tiles – each 256px wide by 256px high. So, I thought I’d write up how to do this using Bing Maps AJAX v7.0. A short web search revealed that, although there are some existing articles on this topic, they’re either somewhat broken or very old. A recent question on the MSDN forums asked about how to create an overlay from a WMS tile server on Bing Maps. ![]()
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