Question

I want to add a map control to my website (ASP.Net 4.0, Visual Studio 2010) and have come across a few:

Bing Maps, Google Maps, OpenStreetMaps

The problems I am coming across is lack of good documentation for them.

I don’t need anything too complicated (no routing or anything like that), I simply need to be able to add pins in locations.

I have used Bing Maps for Silverlight and it was great, it had a nice .Net control with lot’s of documentation available, this is the sort of thing I am after for my ASP.Net site.

Has anyone any experience with ASP and Maps, and any code examples?

Answer 1

It does depend on what exactly your site is for, an dhow visible it is, etc.

For simple things like a “find our office” type of map to go on a public website, it’s pretty easy, and generally free. For use on non-publically accessible sites, most vendors will charge (obviously OpenStreetMap won’t).

For Bing Maps, there is even a handy little ASP.Net control over on Codeplex, although I can’t vouch for how good it is.