After reading these posts on using new Silverlight 2.0 beta 2 Deep Zoom functionality to utilise external tile pyramids (such as Virtual Earth) I decided to give it a go...
The sample code was pretty complete, I just added the Geoquery MapSources, and away it goes...
silverlightearth.com/2b2 (requires Silverlight 2.0 beta 2)
(screenshot a bit stylized to show the different map possibilities)
Okay, there's no searching/geocoding or other map niceties; and the DeepZoom shading (which works great for most things) is a little screwy on text-layers - you'll see what that means if you try it out. But it does work nicely, and puts my (still not finished) Silverlight 1.0 code to shame!
Great extension to the project Craig. I'll give you a ping when we have a more extensible framework in place and you will be able to much more the just show images.
ReplyDeleteWe just added some basic XAML pushpin support last night:
www.codeplex.com/deepearth