ThinkGeo and Map Suite Map Suite Windows Phone Edition Support

Vote for new features on the Enhancement Tracker

ThinkGeo — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 04:05:09 GMT

Greetings all!

As you likely know, the discussion forums have always been a great place for you to suggest new features and enhancements for Map Suite. In fact, they've become such a great resource for new product ideas, we decided to launch the ThinkGeo Enhancement Tracker to keep track of them all. You can also vote on the upgrades that you'd most like to see, or suggest your own if you don't see the feature you want.

Using the Enhancement Tracker, you can see some of the most popular suggestions that our users have offered us to help Map Suite better, along with some plans of our own for improving the product. Here's what you can do:

Click the "Vote Up" button next to your favorite enhancement ideas to tell us you want to see those features in Map Suite.
Click the "Discussion Topic" link to visit the forum thread where discussion is ongoing about that particular feature. Feel free to add your own voice if you wish.
Use the form on the right side of the page to suggest the feature you want if you don't already see it on the Enhancement Tracker.

We'll take your votes into consideration when designing the roadmap for upcoming Map Suite releases, so don't forget to cast your vote.

Click here to visit the Enhancement Tracker now.

Thanks for choosing Map Suite,
The ThinkGeo Team

How to Post Source Code and Attachments

ThinkGeo — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 03:59:48 GMT

How to Post Source Code

If you need to paste a snippet of source code into your forum message, please use our special source code tags. These tags will make sure your code is formatted and colorized so that others can more easily read it.

To do this, first type your message as usual. When you're ready to paste in your source code, switch the message editor into "Source" view by clicking the button shown below:

Then, add one of the following sets of tags, depending on the language of the source code you want to paste in:

You must enable inline frames (iframes) in your browser to display this information.

Once you add one of these sets of code tags, paste your source code in between them.

Please note that your source code will not appear to be formatted correctly when you preview your post. Your code will be stylized and formatted only when you submit your post.

If you need to make edits to your post after submission, select your post and copy it to the clipboard before clicking the "Edit" button. This will preserve your post in case the visual editor strips out any of your source code.

Here is an example of what your formatted source code snippet will look like:

protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (!Map1.CustomOverlays.Contains("Markers"))
        {
            // Add a new feature as a marker
            Map1.MarkerOverlay.Features.Add("Marker", new Feature(0, 52));

            // Set the marker style, and make it available all over the zoomlevels.
            Map1.MarkerOverlay.ZoomLevelSet.ZoomLevel01.DefaultMarkerStyle.WebImage = new WebImage("../../theme/default/img/marker_blue.gif", 21, 25);
            Map1.MarkerOverlay.ZoomLevelSet.ZoomLevel01.ApplyUntilZoomLevel = ApplyUntilZoomLevel.Level20;
        }
    }

Posting Rules & Guidelines

ThinkGeo — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 03:59:16 GMT

Welcome to the ThinkGeo Developer Community!

The ThinkGeo Developer Community is your hub for support, ideas and tips for developing with Map Suite. We have just a few simple rules that you must adhere to when posting, as well as some guidelines for making your contributions the most helpful for others.

Your first post in the discussion forums will be held for moderator approval. Once your message has been approved, you will be able to make future posts without moderation.
If you need help with or want to discuss a particular Map Suite product, please post in the Support Forum for that product. Map Suite 2.0 and older and Map Suite 3.0 and newer products have their own set of support forums. Make sure you're posting in the right one!
If you want to ask a specific question, you can flag your topic to make it easier for others see that you need help. For information on how to flag your topic as a question, see the instructions below.
If you're looking for documentation and other reference information on how to use Map Suite, please browse our online Support Center.
Absolutely no flaming or personal attacks will be tolerated.
Above all, enjoy sharing your ideas, learning from others, and working with Map Suite. We're glad you're with us!

Flagging Your Topic as a Question

You can flag your new topic as a question to make it easier for others to see that you need help. This will also let you mark a specific answer as the "Correct Answer" so that others can see what you did to solve your problem.

To mark your topic as a question, select "Not Resolved" from the Topic Status drop-down:

Then, type your post subject, message and click Submit when you're finished. You'll notice that a question mark icon appears next to your topic on the forum list.

When you receive a response that answers your question, you can mark that response as the correct answer by clicking the "Correct Answer" button above that post:

Afterwards, the question mark icon next to your topic will change to a green checkmark, indicating that your issue has been resolved.

Windows Phone 8 ?

Lars I. — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:09:25 GMT

Hi,

I'm sure you've been waiting for this question :-)

When is ThinkGeo planning on supporting building Map Suite enhanced applications for Windows Phone 8 ?

Or is the current SDK adequate for building such ?

Cheers.

UTM Projection in Windows Phone Map Control

Janne — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:29:25 GMT

Dear Map Suite support,

I am evaluating your Windows Phone 7 map control to be used in our incoming application but I am unable to find out how to implement UTM projection into map control. Our map data is in WMS server which provides tiles in UTM projection.

I have read from your API documentation that by implementing custom Layer with FeatureSource I can change the projection to UTM. However, there seems not to be layers available at all in WP7 map control. Instead there are Overlays who do not have FeatureSource and Projection member which I could change.

1. Ideal situation for me would be that I could inherit my own custom Overlay from TiledWmsOverlay which uses UTM projection. Is this possible?

2. Is it possible to change the existing TiledWmsOverlay to use UTM projection configured with Proj4 command string?

Thank you for your answers! Please answer ASAP!

Supported Data Types

Christian — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:03:04 GMT

I am very confused by what the website says about support for data types. The website says that this version:

"Natively handle Shapefile, TAB, Oracle Spatial, SQL 2008, PostGIS & more"

But, how is this possible? We specifically need to know, how can a Windows Phone 7 device send and receive spatial data from SQL Server 2008. Please explain how this is achieved.

Secondly, our application needs to be an offline solution. We will be syncing spatial data in to a database called EffiProz in isolated storage. The data type will be of an image data type. But, the data will be stored in the OGC standard format. Can we render this data in the Windows Phone Edition? How?

Does the Windows Phone Edition have support for Shape Files stored on the device or in isolated storage? (i.e. not served up from a web service).

Christian

Windows Phone Edition - preliminary questions

Brian — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 03:32:28 GMT

I'm contemplating on aquiring a Windows Phone to enable testing the Phone Edition, but I'm stuck with a couple of questions, I can’t seem to find answers for online:

Is Phone Edition supported on all Windows Phones, or is there a minimum build/configuration to look for ?
The licensing model mentions a server license. Where does this fit into the Phone App development schema, e.g.
1. Are the apps dependent on having a Map Suite driven server present at all times ?
2. Or are special data layers just optionally available thru such a server (I assume WMS and WFS are available directly from Internet to phone) ?

Thanks in advance.

Welcome to the Map Suite Windows Phone Edition support forum!

ThinkGeo — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 04:07:57 GMT

Welcome to the Map Suite Windows Phone Edition support forum!

If you have questions or need help with Map Suite Windows Phone Edition, you've come to the right place. Feel free to post your questions, issues and sample code here. Members of ThinkGeo's Map Suite development staff regularly monitor the forums, so you're likely to have your questions answered quickly.

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