I'm developing Windows Phone application using Bing maps, background tasks and live tiles. I'd like to show current neighborhood on a live tile (piece of a map). Is it somehow possible to show part of a map on a tile?
I guess instantiating Map object in background task and rendering part of the map as image won't fit into memory requirements.
Maybe there is a web service for returning map image for target coordinates, zoom and image size?
There is indeed a way to do this through the Virtual Earth service. You can read more about it here.
To summarize, you can get a square tile for a specific location just like this: