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The maps control is a powerful data visualization widget that can be used to articulate data as a map. It is frequently used in financial dashboards for plotting sales across geography.
Features and Benefits
Optimized for Touch
The maps control provides touch features like selecting, zooming, and panning to give users an immersive experience on the latest tablets and desktops.
ESRI Shapefile Support
The maps control lets you load any ESRI Shapefiles and visualize them. You can load the shapefiles either from the file or by Uri property. A shapefile is a vector storage format used to collect geometric location information and associated attributes. Shapefiles spatially describe a map’s geometries as points, polylines, and polygons.
Bing Maps Support
Utilizing APIs provided by Microsoft, the Maps control for WPF can be integrated with Bing Maps to create a rich map application that is capable of rendering images at higher resolutions than is possible with shapefiles. Use Bing Maps to add aerial and detailed road views with complete zoom and pan functionality.
OpenStreetMap Support
Visualize map data provided through OpenStreetMap.
GeoJSON Support
The maps control for JavaScript, ASP.NET, and ASP.NET MVC supports rendering for GeoJSON-format shapes.
Appearance
The maps control provides various flexible options for customizing the appearance of maps. Apply one of the built-in color palettes to differentiate between shapes in the map or create your own. Use paths to depict travel routes or even detailed street views. Load multiple shapefiles in a single container and move them independently to add multiple layers to your maps.
Navigation
Features a built-in navigation control for interactive zooming and panning of the map. The Maps control also supports layers, allowing you to specify the level of detail in a map depending on the zoom level.
Other Features
The maps control provides data binding support for map labels, symbols, and paths, allowing you to add these elements to a map from a data source. Maps can be serialized via XML files, and can be exported as images.
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