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Azure Maps for Windows 10

Azure Maps for Windows 10

Azure Maps partner with TomTom and Moovit to provide world-class location and mobility information for their customers. Azure Maps provide various way for developers to build their Azure Maps based solutions via REST APIs, Web SDK and Android SDK. Unfortunately, we don’t have Azure Maps SDK for Universal Windows Platform. With the support of REST APIs, we still can build awesome maps app for Windows 10 which based on Azure Maps services. To prove the concept, I have created a…

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Azure Maps vs Bing Maps

Azure Maps vs Bing Maps

Azure Maps is one of the latest Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offer by Microsoft Azure. This services was under public preview since November 2017 under the name of Azure Location Based Services, and it officially General Available (GA) on May 8, 2018. Regardless it called Azure Maps or Azure Location Based Services, the immediate response from developers were, what is the differences between Azure Maps compare to Bing Maps services? Since both of them are the products from Microsoft, it worth we…

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GeoExtension

GeoExtension

Introduction Calculate distance, bearing, mid-point between two geographical points is not an easy job. All the formula that use for calculation is based on the basis of a spherical earth and ignoring ellipsoidal effects of the earth. In fact, the earth is actually oblate spheroidal with a radius varying between 6378KM at equatorial to 6357KM at polar. Local radius of curvature from equatorial meridian to polar is 6336KM and 6399KM respectively. With all of this differences, 6371KM is the generally…

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