Map navigation approach - .NET
I would like to know what might be the best approach to develop a Windows desktop application with map navigation controls - very similar to those found in Google Maps and Live Maps, with drag and drop support, etc.
Initially due to time constraints, I was thinking about a WinForms solution - I think one future solution using WPF would be better, but I had to learn all of this WPF stuff first.
With this in mind, what approach should be taken to develop it? It could be a third part tool, or a simple implementation / algorithm algorithm from which I could take some ideas. To be honest, I'm a bit lost, so any idea would be helpful.
Thank you, had a great day
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There is an open source Kosmos application to view OpenStreetMap maps http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kosmos
However, it reads OSM data and does so on the fly.
I think you want an example that loads the tiles and puts them in the correct order. There is such an example for OpenStreetMap: project osmclient on sourceforge (sorry, can't post link, I'm newbie)
You can simply reinstall the download of other sources, even ArcGIS, but make sure they are compatible with the map provider's license. For instance. you cannot select Google Maps because you have to use Google Maps in your API.
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