Question

I’m looking to create a data visualization where the states of the US are shaded different colors based on data. So, what would be ideal in using a tool like Bing Maps would be to have each state be represented by a custom polygon that I can then shade to the appropriate color.
So, my question is, is there an easy way to select a state and create a custom layer on that state besides trying to create a custom polygon?
I feel like there must be an easier way to do it.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Unfortunately you won’t find this natively in the Bing map SDK. So the only 2 ways to do this are:

• Adding polygons for each states (polygon demo here). You could try working from geodata in that KML file
• Building your own set of tiles (a.k.a. custom layer) and overlay it on top of the map this way

Hope that helps!