On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Peter Hart
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> What I really want to do is to create a URL which takes you to Bing Maps and
> has the map reference i.e. Latitude and Longitude in the URL so that the
> default browse opens up zoomed into the location supplied.
Here's something I use in a C# App, but it should be pretty easy to
convert to VFP:
//pl.X and pt.Y are decimal degrees
string mapUrl = string.Format(urlTemplate, pt.X, pt.Y);
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(mapUrl);
If you are unfamiliar with .Net, the string.Format will replace "{0}"
with pt.X and "[1}" with pt.Y.
I use the following strings (beware of linewrap!):
Google: "http://maps.google.com/maps?q={1},%20{0}&t=h&z=17";
Bing:
"http://bing.com/maps/default.aspx?cp={1}~{0}&style=h&lvl=16&where1={1},%20{0}";
MSFT has a nice help page at
<http://help.live.com/Help.aspx?market=en-US&project=WL_Local&querytype=topic&query=WL_LOCAL_PROC_BuildURL.htm>
aka <http://preview.tinyurl.com/ybzq6dp>
HTH
dt
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Dave Thayer
Denver, CO
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