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windows-phone-8dictionarylatitude-longitudepushpin

How to show map with pushpin for given latitude and longitude in windows phone 8

I'm new to windows phone 8 application. Could you please help me how to show a Map with pushpin for the given Latitude and Longitude in windows phone 8.

Thanks

Solution

  • This will use a Grid inside a MapOverlay, and works pretty well...

     var textGrid = new Grid();
textGrid.ColumnDefinitions.Add(new ColumnDefinition(){Width = GridLength.Auto});
textGrid.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Black){Opacity = 0.7};
var distText = new TextBlock();
distText.Margin = new Thickness(8,4,8,4);
distText.Text = <your text>;
distText.Foreground = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.White);
textGrid.Children.Add(distText);

var textOverlay = new MapOverlay { Content = textGrid, GeoCoordinate = midwayCoord };

var layer = new MapLayer();
layer.Add(textOverlay);
Map.Layers.Add(layer);
Map.MapElements.Add(line);