Bing provides an interesting to alternative to Google maps for integration and if you want to integrate using Jquery. Please copy paste the example in a .html file and test it with a zip-code or city.
The key that I have in the example below will expire in 90 days so please use the below link to create a new key:
http://www.microsoft.com/maps/
Copy the below section after this line in a .html file:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Use Bing Maps REST Services with jQuery to build an autocomplete box and find a location dynamically</title>
<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1.5.1.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.ui/1.8.10/jquery-ui.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.ui/1.8.10/themes/redmond/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
.ui-autocomplete-loading
{
background: white url('images/ui-anim_basic_16x16.gif') right center no-repeat;
}
#searchBox
{
width: 25em;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#searchBox").autocomplete({
source: function (request, response) {
$.ajax({
url: "http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Locations",
dataType: "jsonp",
data: {
key: "AlJKmxkiJg2u0CIDEyaTM6CWC9jQ_q1pf4_xzxPdEJoaT_KsgKRy73ksHyl24oe5",
q: request.term
},
jsonp: "jsonp",
success: function (data) {
var result = data.resourceSets[0];
if (result) {
if (result.estimatedTotal > 0) {
response($.map(result.resources, function (item) {
return {
data: item,
label: item.name + ' (' + item.address.countryRegion + ')',
value: item.name
}
}));
}
}
}
});
},
minLength: 1,
change: function (event, ui) {
if (!ui.item)
$("#searchBox").val('');
},
select: function (event, ui) {
displaySelectedItem(ui.item.data);
}
});
});
function displaySelectedItem(item) {
$("#searchResult").empty().append('Result: ' + item.name).append(' (Latitude: ' + item.point.coordinates[0] + ' Longitude: ' + item.point.coordinates[1] + ')');
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<div class="ui-widget">
<label for="searchBox">
Search:
</label>
<input id="searchBox" />
</div>
<div id="searchResult" class="ui-widget" style="margin-top: 1em;">
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The key that I have in the example below will expire in 90 days so please use the below link to create a new key:
http://www.microsoft.com/maps/
Copy the below section after this line in a .html file:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Use Bing Maps REST Services with jQuery to build an autocomplete box and find a location dynamically</title>
<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1.5.1.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.ui/1.8.10/jquery-ui.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.ui/1.8.10/themes/redmond/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
.ui-autocomplete-loading
{
background: white url('images/ui-anim_basic_16x16.gif') right center no-repeat;
}
#searchBox
{
width: 25em;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#searchBox").autocomplete({
source: function (request, response) {
$.ajax({
url: "http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Locations",
dataType: "jsonp",
data: {
key: "AlJKmxkiJg2u0CIDEyaTM6CWC9jQ_q1pf4_xzxPdEJoaT_KsgKRy73ksHyl24oe5",
q: request.term
},
jsonp: "jsonp",
success: function (data) {
var result = data.resourceSets[0];
if (result) {
if (result.estimatedTotal > 0) {
response($.map(result.resources, function (item) {
return {
data: item,
label: item.name + ' (' + item.address.countryRegion + ')',
value: item.name
}
}));
}
}
}
});
},
minLength: 1,
change: function (event, ui) {
if (!ui.item)
$("#searchBox").val('');
},
select: function (event, ui) {
displaySelectedItem(ui.item.data);
}
});
});
function displaySelectedItem(item) {
$("#searchResult").empty().append('Result: ' + item.name).append(' (Latitude: ' + item.point.coordinates[0] + ' Longitude: ' + item.point.coordinates[1] + ')');
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<div class="ui-widget">
<label for="searchBox">
Search:
</label>
<input id="searchBox" />
</div>
<div id="searchResult" class="ui-widget" style="margin-top: 1em;">
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
