I am using the Bing Maps API on my website to embedd a map etc
I'd like to use their chinese API for my chinese visitors but I could only find the documentation for their "rest of the world" API. Any documentation in English on how to use their Chinese API?
Ideally, I'd only have to change this part: <script charset="UTF-8" type="text/javascript"src="http://ecn.dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=7.0"></script>
What's the equivalent for the Chinese API?
There used to be an old Chinese specific API for Bing Maps which I think you are referring to which has been deprecated for some time as the Bing Maps V7 control supports Chinese. Documentation on how to localize the Bing Maps V7 map control can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg427600.aspx In this documentation you will notice that there are two documented options for Chinese:
Chinese – Hong Kong (zh - HK)
Chinese - Taiwan (zh - TW)
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I'm trying to provide other map options besides just Google. Unfortunately a single HTTP query (e.g. location=123+main+street) only seems to be readily supported by Google.
I had no luck trying to find anything about embedding in the documentation and decided to email them directly:
The MapQuest business products
(https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/) support both single
line input "location=1555+Blake+St+Denver+CO+80202+US" and the
advanced, 5-box method
("street=1555+Blake+St&city=Denver&state=CO&postalCode=80202&country=US").
Our API and SDK also lets you add the mapping/geocoding/routing
functions to your site without embedding links to the consumer site at
www.MapQuest.com.
Okay, so location=123+main+street should be supported in theory. However no example was provided. So using the iframe URL from the more client-oriented approach I tried the following without luck:
https://www.mapquest.com/embed/?location=1555+Blake+St+Denver+CO+80202+US
That just shows the map of the US as a whole.
How do I get the single HTTP query location to work for MapQuest embedding?
Correct: location=1555+Blake+St+Denver+CO+80202+US (single HTTP query).
Incorrect: street=1555+Blake+St&city=Denver (multiple HTTP queries).
It looks like a mix of MapQuest APIs and MapQuest.com. Check out the Link to MapQuest documentation. I think the Map a Location > Fielded Location is what you're after.
On this page: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/tools/link-to-mapquest/
Scroll down to Link to MapQuest Wizard.
Click on Map a Location.
Click on Single Line Location.
Click on the Run Sample with Embed View Specifier button.
Copy the URL from the new tab.
An example of the working MapQuest single HTTP query embedded page:
https://www.mapquest.com/embed/search/results?query=1555%20Blake%20St%20Denver%20CO%2080202¢erOnResults=1
In Bing Maps V7 there was an mkt param to set the language of the map. This is gone in V8 and instead the browsers default language is used:
The Bing Maps v8 web control no longer requires the use of a mkt
parameter to localize the map. If one is not provided the map will
automatically attempt to set the language of the map based on the
user’s browser settings and/or location.
But we need to set the language according to the website's user setting (which can be different from the browser language). Is there a way to set this using the Bing Maps V8 JavaScript API?
In Bing v8 we can use setLang and setMkt parameters to override the default localization setting.
please find below example for setting localization parameters:
<script type='text/javascript'
src='http://www.bing.com/api/maps/mapcontrol?callback=GetMap&setMkt=en-IN&setLang=en'
async defer>
</script>
Please find the below link from where I found this information :
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt712553.aspx#Localizing the Map
Can I define Bing search api only return result from subdomains from a site? For example, www.domain.com/dir/. This is something similar to what Google custom search does. But Google CSE has a hard limit on 10k/day. Is there an alternative search api available for this purpose?
You can simply put this into the query field, like this:
site:domain.com/dir/ whatIAmLookingFor
The query field can contain anything the Bing Engine supports, despite the keyword being site, it apparently supports also URLs
You can read the Bing Search API docs here.
madmuffin is correct, but I'm expanding on his answer to show how multiple sites can be searched. You can use the advanced search operator "site:" as part of your query "q" param.
Single Site Example
"heart disease" site:www.example.com
Multiple Site Example
"heart disease" (site:www.example1.com OR site:www.example2.com)
I am using bing maps REST services and I need to add pushpins but surprisingly it's giving me a hard time. I found out how to easily add pushpins in AJAX services, but that would need me to include scripts and stuff to my pages which I'd really rather skip. I tried searching the internet for information on how to add pushpins in REST ( or simply an iframe with a URL ) but I failed to find any useful such. Does anyone know how I can add pushpins in REST?
EDIT: I'm using dynamic maps based on this link http://www.bing.com/maps/embed/viewer.aspx?showCopyright=false&cp=43.835109710693~25.957630157471&lvl=1&w=250&h=350&sty=r
Assuming that you are using the Bing Maps Imagery REST service, you will be able to add pushpin based on the URL parameters, see the MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff701724.aspx
Here is an sample request that will allow you to add pushpins, take a look at the pp parameter:
http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Imagery/Map/Road/47.619048,-122.35384/15?mapSize=500,500&pp=47.620495,-122.34931;21;AA&pp=47.619385,-122.351485;;AB&pp=47.616295,-122.3556;22&key=BingMapsKey
If you are using embedded maps, here is the list of parameters: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692180.aspx
I am building an RSS Reader. Some of the existing ones out there (for example, Pulse News for iPhone/iPad) have a search box where you can search for some term (example - "sports") and it will return a list of feeds that match your search criteria. So in this example, you type in "sports", and it searches and then comes back with ESPN.com's news feed, Yahoo! Sports' news feed, etc. etc.
After initial research, I found out that Google feed API does the same.
https://code.google.com/intl/fr/apis/ajaxfeeds/documentation/reference.html#findFeeds
However, I cant figure out how to use the google feed api. It returns the xml that i need to parse but the part I am confused is how to call the API and where to catch the xml response. Can some one post a tutorial or some help on how to integrate it.
Found a suitable solution with "Google Feed API" itself. They also have a JSON API(wow!!) which returns the JSON file for any query fired..
Here is the link:
https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/find?v=1.0&q=
e.g:
https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/find?v=1.0&q=News