Bing Maps issues & Event Calendar Pro

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11/26/2011 4:03:57 PM
Crispin
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Bing Maps issues & Event Calendar Pro

I posted this in the feature requests forum inside another thread, but that was not very helpful! Here it is in the correct place...

When a Bing Map is dropped onto a page, with a pin to show a location, the pin location moves when you zoom in and out.  I've not had time to research what's really going on here, but a user pointed it out to me and I can confirm.

The pins location drifts south as you zoom out.

This doesn't happen if you use Bing's map embed code, for example...

<div id="mapviewer"><iframe id="map" Name="mapFrame" scrolling="no" width="350" height="280" frameborder="0" src="http://www.bing.com/maps/embed/?lvl=13.999999999999998&amp;cp=38.02078018674869~23.997194032017507&amp;sty=r&amp;draggable=true&amp;v=2&amp;dir=0&amp;eo=0&amp;where1=Raf%C3%83%C2%ADna%2C+Greece&amp;form=LMLTEW&amp;pp=38.02009963989258~24.006559371948242&amp;mkt=en-gb&amp;emid=6e7df51a-61d2-7cc6-fa76-2d5d0b8b6a8f&amp;w=350&amp;h=280"></iframe><div id="LME_maplinks" style="line-height:20px;"><a id="LME_largerMap" href="http://www.bing.com/maps/?cp=38.020780186748688~23.997194032017507&amp;sty=c&amp;lvl=2&amp;where1=Rafína, Greece&amp;mm_embed=map&amp;form=LMLTEW" target="_blank">View Larger Map</a>&nbsp;<a id="LME_directions" href="http://www.bing.com/maps/?cp=38.020780186748688~23.997194032017507&amp;sty=c&amp;lvl=2&amp;rtp=~pos.38.020780186748688_23.997194032017507_Rafína, Greece&amp;mm_embed=dir&amp;form=LMLTEW" target="_blank">Get Directions</a>&nbsp;<a id="LME_birdsEye" href="http://www.bing.com/maps/?cp=qb33h9jzzspk&amp;sty=b&amp;lvl=18&amp;where1=Rafína, Greece&amp;mm_embed=be&amp;form=LMLTEW" target="_blank">View Bird's Eye</a></div>
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Also a couple of bugs relating to Bing Maps in Event Calendar Pro:

  1. The map pin balloon shows the Location value even when an alias is defined - surely should show the alias (I often need to define the pin location with a long/lat when the geo-coding doesn't deliver).
  2. Typo: Map Settings>  "Show Location Info Ballon"
  3. I think someone else has pointed out that the pin should always show, and the setting above should determine whether or not there is an info balloon by default.
11/28/2011 11:57:08 AM
Joe Audette
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Re: Bing Maps issues & Event Calendar Pro

Hi Crispin,

I've fixed the Bing Map to use the location alias for the text, so this will work in the next release of Event Calendar Pro. It shows a balloon on mouse over, the Show Location Balloon setting is really a google map specific thing.

As far as the point drifting, I agree it does seem to get less accurate as you zoom out, the behavior is the same in the Bing Msap feature as when using Bing Map in Event Calendar Pro. I found this thread where someone else was reporting the problem but the suggested solutions did not work for me. I tried using a custom icon and specifying the ImageOffset and while it did use the custom icon, nothing I tried seemed to affect the position of the icon.

The Bing Map embed code is an entirely different animal that uses an iframe, we are using the Bing Maps Ajax control.

There is a newer version but it looks like it is completely re-written and not backward compatible. I'll log an item in our project tracker and maybe at some point we can re-implement Bing Maps with the new version.

Best,

Joe

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