topic Re: How to access Bing Maps in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Questions

How to access Bing Maps

ChrisMack — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:18:44 GMT

I am using ArcServer 10 and the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex 2.1.

What should I use as the REST endpoint URL for Bing Map data?

Thanks

Re: How to access Bing Maps

MehulChoksey — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:58:31 GMT

Documentation for using bing Maps can be found at:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/help/Default.htm#CSHID=layer_tag.htm|StartTopic=layer_tag.htm

help for using Bing in LocateWidget can be found here:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/help/Default.htm#CSHID=widgets%2Flocate_widget.htm|StartTopic=widgets%2Flocate_widget.htm

See it in action at:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/live/index.html?config=../samples/config-bing.xml

config file for the above application is at:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/samples/config-bing.xml
Config file for the Locate Widget used in above application is at:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/live/widgets/Locate/LocateWidget_Bing.xml

More info on getting Bing key can be found at:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/flex/help/index.html#ve_gettingstarted.htm#

Re: How to access Bing Maps

xanderm — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:11:21 GMT

1) You need your Bing key from arcserver 10

2) In your config.xml file place the following bing tag inside (below) the <configuration> tag

<bing key="YOUR LONG BING KEY GOES HERE"/>

3) In your config.xml add the following layer tags inside your <basemap> tag

<layer label="Bing" type="bing" visible="false" style="road" culture="en-US" />
<layer label="Bing Aerial" type="bing" visible="false" style="aerial" culture="en-US" />
<layer label="Bing Hybrid" type="bing" visible="false" style="aerialWithLabels" culture="en-US" />

that's it!

Re: How to access Bing Maps

ChrisMack — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:55:40 GMT

Thank you xander!

Your info is exactly what I needed.

Works great!

Re: How to access Bing Maps

NathanEnge — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:35:02 GMT

How do I implement Bing if I am using AGS10.1 to server the SFV1.3 using the 1.3 API?

Am I still going to have to use token?

Re: How to access Bing Maps

ToddLassen — Thu, 26 May 2011 17:44:28 GMT

I did all of the steps below and the Bing map shows up in the web application like it should be there but everything is blank. What am I missing?

1) You need your Bing key from arcserver 10

2) In your config.xml file place the following bing tag inside (below) the <configuration> tag

<bing key="YOUR LONG BING KEY GOES HERE"/>

3) In your config.xml add the following layer tags inside your <basemap> tag

<layer label="Bing" type="bing" visible="false" style="road" culture="en-US" />
<layer label="Bing Aerial" type="bing" visible="false" style="aerial" culture="en-US" />
<layer label="Bing Hybrid" type="bing" visible="false" style="aerialWithLabels" culture="en-US" />

Re: How to access Bing Maps

JohnGravois — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:22:09 GMT

Jessica,
At least one of your basemaps needs to have its visible property set to "true".

Re: How to access Bing Maps

LonSharp — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:17:25 GMT

I followed the steps above and get the following error message:

---------------------
Bing layer failed to load: Fault code: 401

Fault info: Unauthorized

Fault details: Access was denied. You may have entered your credentials incorrectly, or you might not have access to the requested resource or operation.
-------------------------

I did a cut/paste of the key from manager (arcgisserver 10).   My confix.xml file has
<configuration>
<bing key="CUT/PASTE KEY"/>

as well as the layer tags under the basemaps tag.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?   I'm assuming it's not recognizing the key, but why?   It came straight from arcgisserver as a cut/paste.

EDIT:

Never mind!   I missed:



in the config file initially.    Works find now.

Re: How to access Bing Maps

LonSharp — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:33:12 GMT

Never mind! No mention was made of the tag:



and I missed it when I initially added the key.

Works find now.

Re: How to access Bing Maps

BruceBurwell — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:47:42 GMT

I am having the same problem. A bing layer appears but its not the aerial layer that I want. It looks like the hillshaded layer. I have tried all the different style tags but the layer doesn't change. Its always the same one.

Any ideas?

Bruce Burwell

Re: How to access Bing Maps

LonSharp — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:19:44 GMT

I'm still new to this, Bruce, but it sounds like you seeing the bing roads layer (the one referenced with the tag <layer label="Bing" type="bing" visible="false" style="road" culture="en-US" /> )

Make sure that the visibily is set to false, and the visibility for one of the other two - aerials or hybrid - is set to "true".

(note that I didn't actually add all three tags to my config file, just the hybrid)

Re: How to access Bing Maps with Flexviewer 3.0 using flex api 1.3

AnshulMantri1 — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 03:23:20 GMT

Hi,
Is it still possible to project bing maps using flex api lib v 1. I understand in olderversion of flex it needs a handler page with userID and pwd. Does it allow the projection of bing maps to other than wgs84.

regads
anshul

Re: How to access Bing Maps with Flexviewer 3.0 using flex api 1.3

AnshulMantri1 — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 03:46:54 GMT

HI Robert,

I am using flexviewer 3 with flex api 1.3.

The tage is

<esri:VETiledLayer id="veLayer" tokenURL="" />.

I want to understand what will this tokenURL contain?

If its a handler page then it will need user ID and password.

But at the same time i registered at "https://www.bingmapsportal.com" it gave me a key to use. I can use this key in Flex 4 and not in Flex 3. Could you please suggest how to use the key for flexviewer3.

thanks
Anshul

Re: How to access Bing Maps

AnshulMantri1 — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 06:10:41 GMT

Documentation for using bing Maps can be found at:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/help/Default.htm#CSHID=layer_tag.htm|StartTopic=layer_tag.htm

help for using Bing in LocateWidget can be found here:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/help/Default.htm#CSHID=widgets%2Flocate_widget.htm|StartTopic=widgets%2Flocate_widget.htm

See it in action at:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/live/index.html?config=../samples/config-bing.xml

config file for the above application is at:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/samples/config-bing.xml
Config file for the Locate Widget used in above application is at:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/flexviewer/live/widgets/Locate/LocateWidget_Bing.xml

More info on getting Bing key can be found at:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/flex/help/index.html#ve_gettingstarted.htm#

The links for Bing map documentations are not working, can someone please update the new links..!!