I'm developing a Windows Phone 8.1 app that works with Bing Maps.
During the rendering of this map I use the TrySetViewBoundsAsync
to set correctly my custom view. But now I want to get this information (after the user changes the view by zooming/moving the map) but I don't find any method that helps me.
How can I get the view bounds?
There isn't a built in method for this, however it can be done fairly easily. Here is a bit of code for this which I pulled from the Microsoft Maps Spatial Toolbox project:
public static GeoboundingBox GetBounds(this MapControl map)
{
Geopoint topLeft = null;
try
{
map.GetLocationFromOffset(new Windows.Foundation.Point(0, 0), out topLeft);
}
catch
{
var topOfMap = new Geopoint(new BasicGeoposition()
{
Latitude = 85,
Longitude = 0
});
Windows.Foundation.Point topPoint;
map.GetOffsetFromLocation(topOfMap, out topPoint);
map.GetLocationFromOffset(new Windows.Foundation.Point(0, topPoint.Y), out topLeft);
}
Geopoint bottomRight = null;
try
{
map.GetLocationFromOffset(new Windows.Foundation.Point(map.ActualWidth, map.ActualHeight), out bottomRight);
}
catch
{
var bottomOfMap = new Geopoint(new BasicGeoposition()
{
Latitude = -85,
Longitude = 0
});
Windows.Foundation.Point bottomPoint;
map.GetOffsetFromLocation(bottomOfMap, out bottomPoint);
map.GetLocationFromOffset(new Windows.Foundation.Point(0, bottomPoint.Y), out bottomRight);
}
if (topLeft != null && bottomRight != null)
{
return new GeoboundingBox(topLeft.Position, bottomRight.Position);
}
return null;
}
Note that rbrundritt's solution will not work for oblique (tilted) views. In that case, the visible region resembles more an inverted trapezoid than a bounding box. Also the top-left corner might not be a valid location if the horizon is visible.
For Windows 10 Anniversary Update (version 1607), the MapControl
supports a new method GetVisibleRegion()
to help you with this.
The following should return you the view bounds of the map:
map.GetVisibleRegion(MapVisibleRegionKind.Full)
See the MapControl documentation for more details.