Virtual Earth - Printing mapping directions to paper
There are several different ways to print the mapping directions to the paper. I have attached a simple sample program that should be able to get started. What this program does is display the directions in a TextArea; using JavaScript create a Post method and have the routing information posted onto another page.
<%
@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default2.aspx.cs" Inherits="Default2" %>
<!
DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<
html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<
head runat="server">
<title>Virtual Earth - Print Mapping directions </title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=5"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var map = null;
function GetMap()
{
map =
new VEMap('myMap');
map.LoadMap();
map.GetRoute(
'Microsoft','Space Needle',null,null,onGotRoute);
}
function onGotRoute(route)
{
var routeinfo="Route info:\r\n";
routeinfo+=
"Total distance: ";
routeinfo+= route.Itinerary.Distance+
" ";
routeinfo+= route.Itinerary.DistanceUnit+
"\n";
var steps="";
var len = route.Itinerary.Segments.length;
for(var i = 0; i < len ;i++)
{
steps+=route.Itinerary.Segments[i].Instruction+
" -- (";
steps+=route.Itinerary.Segments[i].Distance+
") ";
steps+=route.Itinerary.DistanceUnit+
"\n";
}
routeinfo+=
"Steps:\n"+steps;
document.getElementById(
"directions").value = routeinfo;
}
</script>
</
head>
<
body onload="GetMap();">
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div id='myMap' style="position: relative; width: 100%; height: 400px;"></div> <br/>
<div>
<textarea id="directions" name="directions" style="width: 700px; height: 400px" rows="2"
cols="4"></textarea>
</div>
</form>
</
body>
</
html>
For more information you can visit the following websites:
1. https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb412546.aspx
2. https://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2007/05/01/the-virtual-earth-lab-mix-07.aspx