Question

Is there an easy way to determine the maximum and minimum visible latitude and longitude in a VirtualEarth map? Given that it’s not a flat surface (VE uses Mercator projection it looks like) I can see the math getting fairly complicated, I figured somebody may know of a snippet to accomplish this.

Answer 1

Found it! VEMap.GetMapView() returns the bounding rectangle, even works for 3D mode as well (where the boundary is not even a rectangle).

var view = map.GetMapView();  latMin = view.BottomRightLatLong.Latitude; lonMin = view.TopLeftLatLong.Longitude; latMax = view.TopLeftLatLong.Latitude; lonMax = view.BottomRightLatLong.Longitude;