what is the best way to host a BING map inside a page on Sharepoint 2010 Farm Solution?

Question

I'm new to SharePoint, and could really use some advice:

• what is the best way to host a BING map inside Sharepoint ?

The task I have is: to host a bing map inside a Sharepoint 2010 Farm Solution. We need to be able to overlay an ESRI type grid:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esri_grid

The data in the grid is sensitive, so would need to avoid transmitting the data back to the BING map server.

My current idea is:

• use javascript to host the bing map in a SharePoint page

• separately, read ESRI data from datasource, and overlay that over the bing map (avoiding transmitting an ESRI data to bing)

• Does this sound practical with SharePoint 2010 ?

• Have you performed a similar project, and how would you go about it ?

thanks very much

Sean

Answer 1

I can point you into the right direction!

doesnt need explaining as its well explained in detail: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/81359/Bing-Maps-in-SharePoint-2010-Web-Part

using javascript: http://andrewwhitten.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/use-bing-maps-as-a-dashboard-visualization-in-sharepoint-2010/

http://summit7systems.com/blogs/integrating-sharepoint-and-bing-maps/

adding pushpin to maps http://weblogs.asp.net/gunnarpeipman/archive/2010/09/28/bing-maps-adding-and-tracking-pushpins-using-javascript.aspx

another good guide with java methods: http://cm-bloggers.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/using-microsoft-bing-maps-in-sharepoint.html

esri and sharepoint http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/mapping-sharepoint/download

EDIT also like to note that someone wanted to do somthing similar here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11549186/custom-zoomable-images-using-bing-maps

These should help you out and get you going.

Answer 2

You can use Silverlight to create Bing Maps and host the XAP file in SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010 has a Silverlight webpart which takes the url of the xap file created from a silverlight application and shows it in the sharepoint 2010 pages. You may find this link useful to get started. http://sharepointnadeem.blogspot.in/2011/08/bing-maps-in-sharepoint-2010.html