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Note: The page was created before Map Suite 10. Map Suite 10.0 organized many classes into new namespaces and assemblies as well as had a few minor breaks in compatibility. The majority of previously built code should work without modification assuming the new namespaces are added. For guidance on upgrading your existing code, please check out MapSuite 10 Upgrade Guide.

ClusterPoint (WPF)

ClusterPointStyle is integrated into Map Suite's core. In this project you will see how to use the ClusterPointStyle for clustering various features into one. Sometimes, the map may have too many features which are stacked on top of each other making the map illegible at higher zoom levels. Clustering is a useful technique as it allows you to group together various features into one labeled symbol with the count of all the features. This latest sample also includes recent performance enhancements to the clustering API.


Map Suite Wpf Desktop Edition Styles Samples

Filter Style

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In today's Wpf project, we show you how to apply the FilterStyle to a layer's display. By using this style, the map will filter the features queried from the source file by checking if a specified column value fits the input condition. This effect can be applied to all the Map Suite products.


Animated Gif

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In today’s project, we learn how to extend InMemoryFeatureLayer to have the ability to display animated gif for each layer in the Desktop edition. You will notice that for now, we are limited to have one animated gif per InMemoryFeatureLayer but in the future, we will show the technique to have a different animated gif for each feature of the InMemoryFeatureLayer.


Default ValueStyle

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In today’s Wpf project, we demonstrate the extensibility of ThinkGeo API by creating a custom Style. Inheriting from ValueStyle, we create a Default Value Style that handles the drawing of features that don’t have a value defined in the ValueStyle. Here we are using a point based layer with PointStyle. Note that the Default ValueStyle would also work with line and polygon based layers.


Distance Line Style

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This Web project shows how to create a new style class CustomDistanceLineStyle inheriting from LineStyle class. You can pay attention to how the DrawCore function is override for a very specific need of style: displaying the distance label on each line segment making up a LineShape. In addition to the overriding of the DrawCore function, you will find useful some geometry functions such as GetPointOnLine to find the midpoint of a line segment and GetAngleFromTwoVertices to incline correctly the labels according to the orientation of each line segment. You will notice that the CustomDistanceLineStyle works for features made of LineShape and you will have to slightly modify to have it working with MultilineShape.


EditOverlay Styles

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In today’s Web project, we learn how to control the styles of the EditOverlay for both the default style and the editing style. In order to accomplish this, we write some javascript code. Look at the code in the “script” tag to see how we can control the fill color, the opacity, the border width etc of the features in the EditOverlay.


Line Style With Increment

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In today’s winforms desktop project, we expend on the functions of DistanceLineStyle shown on a previous sample, “Distance Line Style”. Here we show how to create a custom LineStyle for showing distance increment at a regular interval (every tenth kilometers). Having this LineStyle can be very handy when dealing with line network such as roads or railways.


Multiple Dot Density Styles

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In this sample, we are looking in a little more detail at the DotDensityStyle. You can combine different DotDensityStyles on one FeatureLayer using different columns. Demographic data are usually well fit to be used with that type of style. Here each dot of a certain color represents 100,000 persons of the same age group by state. Using multiple DotDensityStyles, the dimension of age group demographics is added to the representation of population density. Note that the PointToValueRatio is used to set how many people a dot is going to represent. For example, if you want a dot to represent 100,000 persons, you set it to 0.00001 (1 / 100000). If you want it to be 500,000 persons, you set it to 0.000002 (1 / 500000).


MultiLine Labeling

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For labeling purpose, TextStyle has a property called LabelAllPolygonParts that will label all the parts making up a polygon based feature. Unfortunately, we don’t have an equivalent API for labeling all the parts of a line based feature. But thanks to the flexible framework of Map Suite, we show in this Wpf sample how easily you can expand the TextStyle class to allow this labeling capability. Look at the custom class MultiLinetextStyle and how DrawCore function is overridden to have the expected labeling behavior.


Projection Distance LineStyle

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This Web project is similar to the project “Distance Line Style”. Here we show how to use a projection of choice different from the projection used on the map. For example, you may have your map using Google map as a background. Google map uses Spherical Mercator projection which is not ideal for distance measurements, that is why using a more appropriate projection for distance measurement such as State Plane will give more accurate results. The CustomDistanceLineStyle inheriting from LIneStyle has the logic built in to have the distance calculated based on a projection of choice instead of the projection of the map.

As for the previous project “Distance Line Style”, you can see how the DrawCore function is overridden for the a specific need of style: displaying the distance label on each line segment making up a LineShape. In addition to the overriding of the DrawCore function, you will find useful some geometry functions such as GetPointOnLine to find the midpoint of a line segment and GetAngleFromTwoVertices to incline correctly the labels according to the orientation of each line segment. You will notice that the CustomDistanceLineStyle works for features made of LineShape and you will have to slightly modify to have it working with MultilineShape.


Side View Icon

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This project is a little bit similar to the previous one Rotate Icon. It shows how to display correctly side view icons of moving vehicles. With top down view icons of vehicle, you simply rotate the icon according to the direction of the vehicle. But with side view icons of vehicle, it is a little bit trickier and you have to use a pair of icons. This project shows how to handle that and also how to calculate the direction of a vehicle based on the current GPS reading and the last one.


Smooth Transparent Route

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In the Routing extension, the API GetRoute of the RoutingEngine returns a MultilineShape made of a collection of LineShape. By default, the MultilineShape has LineShapes for each two vertex line segment. The result in the displaying of the route using some transparency is a route that looks dotted and irregular. In this project, we show the trick to get one continuous LineShape which will show as smooth and regular. We recognized that the default result is not the most adequate in most cases and we will correct that for the next major release of the Routing extension. In the meantime, you can use that project to get the result that you want to display your routes.


Weather Line Style

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In this Wpf sample, we learn how to extend LineStyle class to create a style for representing weather fronts such as cold front, warm front and occluded front for your weather maps. To achieve that styling a regular LineStyle is used for the front line itself. For symbolizing the type of front an icon is used. Notice the two handy properties to give you more control: Spacing property to adjust the distance in screen coordinate between each symbol on the line and Side property to control on what side of the line front the symbols should appear. Of course, as you zoom in and out on the map the spacing between each symbol remain the same as it is set in screen coordinate.


Weather Line Style

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In this Wpf sample, we learn how to extend LineStyle class to create a style for representing weather fronts such as cold front, warm front and occluded front for your weather maps. To achieve that styling a regular LineStyle is used for the front line itself. For symbolizing the type of front an icon is used. Notice the two handy properties to give you more control: Spacing property to adjust the distance in screen coordinate between each symbol on the line and Side property to control on what side of the line front the symbols should appear. Of course, as you zoom in and out on the map the spacing between each symbol remain the same as it is set in screen coordinate.


Adjusted Scaling Image Style

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The purpose of this project is to address some of the limitations of the ScalingImageStyle that we saw in the project of the same name. As with ScalingImageStyle, with AdjustedScalingImageStyle, you have the icon scaling up and down according to the zoom level; but you can also have the icon pointing correctly to the point feature it represents if for example you are using a pin as an icon. Also, the problem of the height of the image not sizing proportionally to its width has been corrected.


Cached Value Style

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The MapSuite API provides a Value Style as you can see in the sample app “Draw features based on value”. This is a great way to display feature features based on some value of a column. With this style and any other styles offered by the MapSuite API, each time the map has to redraw the value for each feature within the current extent has to be fetched. This can affect the performance especially if a large number of features are used. With CachedValueStyle, the value for each feature is cached into memory to reduce the overhead of having to go and fetch the value for each feature each time the map has to draw. Using this CachedValueStyle has a benefit on performance but you need to pay attention on memory usage.


ClusterPointStyle

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In this project, you will see how to use a custom style, ClusterPointStyle for clustering various features into one. Sometimes, the map may have many features stacked on top of each other at high zoom levels making the map too busy and difficult to read. Clustering is a usefull technique in those situation making the map more readable. It groups together various features into one symbol with the count of all the features being labeled.

There are many ways for finding the location of the cluster point. One of the simplest is to use the center of gravity of all the clustered features as used in this project.

In this project, we are using volcanoes because natural phenomenon are usually good candidates for being clustered.


Decimal Degrees Formatting

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The purpose of this project is to complete the static class DecimalDegreesHelper. This class offers functions to go to and from Decimal Degrees but it lacks the functions handling various formats such as Degrees Decimal Minutes and Degrees Minutes Decimal Seconds. Those formats can be output by different GPS devices and it is handy to know how to manipulate them and convert them to Decimal Degrees, the only format that can be input into a GIS or Mapping application.


Displaying One-Way Streets

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In the Discussion Forum Post “Drawing one-way streets in the map”, we have a question on how to display an arrow on a street that is one way as Google Map does. In this project, we show the solution by creating a LineStyle specifically for that purpose. We take the shapefile “AustinWithOneWayRoad.shp” from the sample app “Route On One-Way Roads” of Map Suite Routing Extension to display the arrow according to the traffic direction on the one-way streets


Doughnut Point Style

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This project shows how to create a doughnut point style as this style is not offered by the MapSuite API. DonutPointStyle inherits from PointStyle and you will notice that in the overridden method DrawCore, no reference to any GDI + API is used. That means that this style is drawing system independent.


Feature Centric Style

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This project got inspired for looking at the sample “ClassBreakStyle” of How Do I demo apps. Using a ClassBreakStyle, the data is displayed based on what class each feature belongs to. Using a custom FeatureCentricStyle, each feature is displayed in relation to a central feature. In this example, it shows all the countries that have a comparable population to a reference country.

To do that, we use a custom style FeatureCentricAreaStyle inheriting from AreaStyle and we override DrawCore and GetRequiredColumnNamesCore methods. The code in DrawCore loops thru all the features and checks if the value for a specified column is within a certain range of the central feature.

You can see how you could apply and extent the logic of this custom style to be used in Real Estate for example, where you could see all the properties that are comparable according to some criteria to a selected property.


Flashing Point Style

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In this project, we explore how to create a point style that flashes. Here we take the example of a vehicle moving around based on GPS location and flashes when entering prohibited zones. I think that this project will inspire people working on building a vehicle tracking application. This project is a general solution for a Servicess edition. Notice that we are using two MapEngines with one only for drawing the flashing vehicle to avoid redrawing the other layers at each flashing.

Later, we will publish projects specifically adapted for the Desktop and Web editions.


Hybrid TextStyle

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This project is a follow up to the Discussion Forum post here
Rotating the feature text (similar to wordwrap).

In this project, we create a new Text Style combining word wrapping that we saw in the project http://code.thinkgeo.com/projects/show/wordwrapped and text rotation. You can see the labels word wrapping and rotating in harmony with the resizing and rotating of the shapes.


Image Style

As you probably already know, using the Map Suite API, you can easily display a point-based feature as an image. But how do you do the same thing for a line or a polygon-based feature? In this WPF project, we show you how to create custom Image Styles for both line and polygon features. With the new ImageAreaStyle, you can display a polygon feature that uses an image as its fill. You can see how an image for forest and water is used in the sample project. And with the new ImageLineStyle, you can do the same thing with line features. You'll see how an image of a pavement texture is used to represent streets.


Isolines

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In this sample we show how you can use Map Suite to add isolines (commonly known as contour lines) to your .NET application. Isolines are a way to visualize breaks between different groups of data such as elevation levels, soil properties, or just about anything else you can imagine. This sample also shows the various steps in creating isolines, including the gathering of point data, creating a grid using interpolation, and finally, picking your isoline break levels. We also quickly dive into some more advanced options such as generating isolines on the fly.

To bring this all together, check out our instructional video that will walk you through the process of setting up and working with isolines in Map Suite.

Please note that you will need version 5.0.87.0 or newer of Map Suite in order to use isolines. For more information on how to upgrade, see the Map Suite Daily Builds Guide.


Rotate Icon

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In the “How Do I” windows apps, there is sample “Efficiently Move A Plane Image” that shows a plane moving across the map from west to east along the Great Circle path. A flaw in this sample is that the plane is always shown flying in one direction regardless of the curve of the path.

In today’s project, we learn to correct that by setting an angle to the image. The key function is GetAngleFromTwoVertices. You can take this function is apply it to your vehicle tracking needs. It can be used to display any moving vehicle with the orientation according to the heading direction.


Routing Styles

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The API for the Routing extension product provides a class RoutingLayer. RoutingLayer is basically a convenient layer to have the features for routing being displayed in a default way. You can add the start, end point, the routes and it is going to display that nicely for you without much work on your side. While this is convenient, you may be in the situation when you want more control on the styles and have the whole flexibility that an InMemoryFeatureLayer gives you. In this project, we show how to display in InMemoryFeaturesLayers the start and end points, as well as the resulting route using the full power of InMemoryFeatureLayer such as zoom levels and custom styles.


Scaling Image Style

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This project presents a useful case where you want to have the icon representing a feature to be sized in proportion to the current scale. It is little bit similar to what we show in the project SizedPointStyle exept that the size of the symbol is based on the scale, not on some values specific to each feature. That explains why in the class ScalingImageStyle, the method GetRequiredColumnNames is not overriden. The whole drawing logic can be contained in DrawCore.


Scaling TextStyle

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This project shows how to create a Style inheriting from TextStyle to have the label sizing according to the scale. You will see that the logic of scaling is basically the same as the on in the previous project “ScalingImageStyle” but applied to TextStyle.


Scaling TextStyle for Polygon

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In the project “Scaling TextStyle”, we learned how to create a custom TextStyle to have the font size proportional to the scale while zooming in and out the map when labeling point based features. In the project “Scaling Image Style”, we learned basically the same thing but applied to an icon or an image. In today's project, we also learn how to create a scaling textStyle but for polygon features. Notice in the overridden DrawCore function how we calculate the font size based on the current and how we make sure no label overlapping exists by using the function CheckOverlapping of the base class before drawing the label for each part of the polygon.


Sized Point Style

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Creating a Custom Style is a great way to encapsulate custom logic draw symbol based on some values. This project shows that using the concrete example world capitals. In this example, we draw capitals as circles with the size proportional to the population. We create the class SizedBasedPointStyle inheriting from PointStyle. We override the method DrawCore for the drawing logic. We also override the method GetRequiredColumnNamesCore to make sure we have the column for Population that will be used in DrawCore method to calculate the correct size of the circle for each feature.


Start End LineStyle

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Today, we are looking at how to extent LineStyle to have a style for lines that shows the start and end points. This is useful to display line features with that custom LineStyle if you are mindful of the order it was digitized and you want to know the direction of the lines. This project is similar to previous ones where LineStyle is extended such as “One Way Streets” and “Distance Line Style”.


TextStyle for Multi Line

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If you are labeling features based on MulilineShapes, using the default TextStyle, only one line of the collection of lines making up the MultilineShape is going to be label. In today’s project, we show how to create a new class inheriting from TextStyle that will label all the lines of the MultilineShapes. That behavior is similar to the property LabelAllPolygonParts of DefaultTextStyle for polygons.


Time Based Point Style

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This project shows how to create a custom style to display info based on some live data. Here we display world capital with a symbol for day or for night according to the local time. The method GetRequiredColumnNamesCore is overridden to make sure the column for the time zone is used. The method DrawCore is also overridden. It contains the logic to determine if a feature is within day time or night time according to the time zone column and the system time on the machine.


Time Line

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In this project, we learn another way to inherit from Style creating the class DateBasedStyle to display features according to some time values. Using a Time Line based on a track bar, the user can scroll back and forth on the time line to see what states were parts of the Union at any year.

Also, notice that this project used three instances of the MapEngine to have the states of Alaska and Hawaii displayed on a different PictureBox.


ValueStyle with Countries

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In today’s project, we revisit the ValueStyle class that is introduced in the “How Do I” sample app “Draw Features Based on Values”. In that sample app we show how to use the ValueStyle on a point based layer to display cities according to their population rank. In today’s Code Community project, we apply the ValueStyle to the polygon based countries layer (supplied with the sample apps). The countries layer has a column named “Color_map” with values from 1 to 8. Each number is assigned a color; that way the countries are displayed with 8 various colors on the map helping to distinguish them easily.

Also, in this project, we pay attention to some advisable cosmetic practices for using light or pastel colors. As a general rule, it is recommendable to use lighter colors for displaying general background features such as countries rather than brighter ones to have a more pleasing visual experience for the map users.


WordWrapped TextStyle

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In the Discussion Forum post “Display word-wrapped text”, there is a discussion on how to implement a TextStyle doing word wrapping. In this project, you will actually find a working implementation. Notice that by using the class WordWrappingTextStyle, word-wrapping is applied according the proportion of the size of the text to the size of the bounding box of the feature to label. This means that the label can be word-wrapped or not depending on the zoom level.

You can find the discussion forum post on that topic at:
http://gis.thinkgeo.com/Support/DiscussionForums/tabid/143/aff/21/aft/6421/afv/topic/Default.aspx


World Sized Image Style

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At the request of a client, today we have a project showing how to have an ImageStyle of real world dimension. A good example to show that is to use an image representing a cruise ship. Knowing that the ship is of 300 meters of length and 90 meters of width, we can use an image representing a ship and set those dimension to it. It will be drawn on the map always at those dimensions regardless of the zoom level. The logic used for this is very similar to what we saw in the project World Sized TextStyle but applied to images.


World Sized Text Style

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In our Discussion Forum, we have a user asking for how to label text at world coordinates. For example, how to display a label at a size of 50 kilometers? Now, you can find in this project a custom TextStyle called WorldSizedTextStyle that does that. Whether your map is in Meters, Feet or Decimal Degrees, you can have the labels displayed at the desired size in any real world distance unit such as kilometers, meters, miles, feet etc.


Label Point with Circle Symbol and Mask Description

In this WPF project we show how you can create a friends network using a point with a circle symbol. It’s a combination of PointStyle and TextStyle, including a description with a mask that keeps the labels in the same layer. It was originally required by a customer at http://community.thinkgeo.com/t/label-on-a-circle-with-lot-of-points/8193/6, it’s a solution with many applications.

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