Hi I have created an api key and tried it with your example tutorial. But I get the error : The specified credentials are invalid. You can sign up for a free developer account at http://www.bingmapsportal.com I am hosting the code at jccodez.com/BingMaps Please can you help. Regards James

You have square brackets around your key in the map script URL, remove those. If you are just getting started, you might also want to take a look at Azure Maps. It's Microsoft latest mapping platform. The Azure Maps web SDK has a lot more performance benefits, and licensing is much easier than Bing Maps. Here are some resources: Main product page: https://azure.com/maps Code samples: https://azuremapscodesamples.azurewebsites.net/ Docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/ How to create an account: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/how-to-manage-account-keys

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rbrundritt 15,231 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-07-02T18:07:31.98+00:00
You have square brackets around your key in the map script URL, remove those.

If you are just getting started, you might also want to take a look at Azure Maps. It's Microsoft latest mapping platform. The Azure Maps web SDK has a lot more performance benefits, and licensing is much easier than Bing Maps. Here are some resources:

Main product page: https://azure.com/maps

Code samples: https://azuremapscodesamples.azurewebsites.net/

Docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/

How to create an account: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/how-to-manage-account-keys
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James Clark 21 Reputation points

2021-07-02T21:32:26.823+00:00

Thats great thanks very much Ill give a try. What I am really looking for is really clear satellite maps when zoomed in that I can free hand draw on. I wrote an app with google api but was trying some others. Yet to find maps as clear as google.

Thanks again

rbrundritt 15,231 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-07-02T23:29:53.347+00:00

Both platforms use the same imagery provider, so you will get the same with both.

Here is an example of drawing and extracting shapes with either platform:

Bing Maps: https://bingmapsv8samples.azurewebsites.net/#DrawingTools_GetDrawnShapes

Azure Maps: https://azuremapscodesamples.azurewebsites.net/?sample=Get%20drawn%20shapes%20from%20drawing%20manager (Some advance drawing tool features will likely be released in the next week. One key one is a snapping grid which makes it much easier to draw nicely aligned shapes) Here are some more drawing tool samples: https://azuremapscodesamples.azurewebsites.net/#Drawing-Tools-Module The Azure Maps drawing tools also have some advanced controls and short cuts that are good to know about: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/drawing-tools-interactions-keyboard-shortcuts
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