BingMaps for Enterprise - Route Service Inaccurate?

[Dick Donny]

Hi

I've recently started a development which makes use of the silverlight map
control and the bing route service and am a little unclear about the results
I am getting.

I've noticed that the data returned from the get route operation does not
appear to allow the plotting of the route accurately on the map control using
polylines.

If I compare the results with that of maps.bing.com, I have the same
itinery, roughly the same mileage and travel time information, yet it
generates a route line that 'sticks' to the road.

Is this simply a 'feature' of the development platform or am I using the
wrong api to extract an appropriately granular set of locations to render
from?

Thank you in anticipation of any help/advice.

Richard

[Derek Chan]

Richard,

If you're using the VEMap.GetRoute method, its been deprecated a while back
with VEMap.GetDirections.

You might want to start a discussion on the Bing MSDN Forums, as this is
only for Mappoint Web Service (the older web product) related issues.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vemapcontroldev/threads

Hope that helps,
--
Windows Live Platform MVP

Post by Dick Donny
Hi
I've recently started a development which makes use of the silverlight map
control and the bing route service and am a little unclear about the results
I am getting.
I've noticed that the data returned from the get route operation does not
appear to allow the plotting of the route accurately on the map control using
polylines.
If I compare the results with that of maps.bing.com, I have the same
itinery, roughly the same mileage and travel time information, yet it
generates a route line that 'sticks' to the road.
Is this simply a 'feature' of the development platform or am I using the
wrong api to extract an appropriately granular set of locations to render
from?
Thank you in anticipation of any help/advice.
Richard