Folks, coming soon in our app is the need for a map region selector where
you click on states of America or European counties for example.
I see the problem broken into a few pieces: * defining the complex regions
and hoping that there are public sets of coordinates that define famous
I remember way back in SQL Server 2008 they introduced geospacial data
and queries that may make this sort of stuff easy. There were a few
demos floating around on how to interact with this sort of data, which
I'm sure you could google up without much effort. Unfortunately I
haven't had the joy
Carl, unfortunately there is no chance of using SQL Server in this app. I
have a fat book chapter
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/book.aspx?id=12805 here on
spatial data that I'd like to try out, but this isn't a chance. I'm still
web searching for some kind of control or library which
Chris, that's a really weird sample, putting it in a ListBox, I mean he
could have put it all in a Canvas to be more realistic. However there are
some interesting clues inside. He has the XML state coordinates, so they
(and other stuff) must be publicly available somewhere (I'm still looking)
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Cross posting this, I'm on too many lists. Hope that doesn't offend...
I've got a unit test that is throwing an exception. (Finally got it hitting
my catch block) Its a smoke test so has a loop in it for every view. I want
it to NOT fail the test if an exception is hit. I want it to output to
Well, it's mainly used to demonstrate how much you can customise the
ListBox control using a control template, but you've also got the advantage
of each state being selectable using the functionality already provided
by the ListBox control. I think it's quite a neat way to go about the
problem.
For the state boundaries GeoCommons is your friend:
http://geocommons.com/overlays/1198
For the UI you probably want to start with an existing mapping control like
DeepEarth (http://deepearth.codeplex.com/) or the bing maps control.
They'll give you lots of stuff for free including all the
