In this MWC/ADC 2013 presentation Vaughan Knight, Developer Technical Support Manager at Nokia, provides an overview to the new mapping and location features in Windows Phone 8. These features include a new map control that no longer requires a key, support for offline maps, and pedestrian landmark among others. He then looks at coding map and location apps with the new control and geolocator before showing you how to launch Nokia Direction and Nokia drive from your app as well as use the offline features. For more information see www.developer.nokia.com/windowsphone or http://www.developer.nokia.com/Resources/Library/Lumia/#!guide-to-the-wp8-maps-api.html. Find out more about the developer features of Nokia Lumia smartphones in the Lumia App Labs: http://www.developer.nokia.com/Develop/Windows_Phone/Learn/

1. MAPPING AND
LOCATION
Use the camera buttons!
VAUGHAN KNIGHT

2. NEW FOR MAPPING
ON WINDOWS PHONE 8
• New map control
• No longer requires a key
• Supports offline maps
• Pedestrian landmark support
• And many more features …

3. MAP VIEWS
ROAD AERIAL HYBRID TERRAIN

4. LIGHT AND DARK COLOURS
LIGHT DARK

5. DEMO: MAP CONTROL AND
GEOLOCATOR

6. MAP LAUNCHERS

7. LAUNCHING MAPS
• Dedicated way to launch maps
from your application
MapsTask mapsTask = new MapsTask();
//Omit the Center property to use the user's current location.
mapsTask.Center = new GeoCoordinate(47.6204, -122.3493);
mapsTask.SearchTerm = "tapas";
mapsTask.ZoomLevel = 17;
mapsTask.Show();

8. LAUNCHING DIRECTIONS
• Dedicated way to launch maps with
directions to a destination
// Get Directions
MapsDirectionsTask mapsDirectionsTask = new MapsDirectionsTask();
// If you set the geocoordinate parameter to null, the label parameter
// is used as a search term.
LabeledMapLocation spaceNdleLML = new LabeledMapLocation("Space Needle",
null);
// If mapsDirectionsTask.Start is not set, the user's current location
// is used as start point.
mapsDirectionsTask.End = spaceNdleLML;
mapsDirectionsTask.Show();

9. OFFLINE MAPS
• Map Downloader Task var mapDownloaderTask = new MapDownloaderTask();
for downloading maps mapDownloaderTask.Show();
• Map Updater Task var mapUpdaterTask = new MapUpdaterTask();
for updating maps mapUpdaterTask.Show();

10. OFFLINE MAPS
DOWNLOAD UPDATE

11. LAUNCHING NOKIA DRIVE
• Get driving directions with the new app to app
communications in WP8

12. DEMO: APP LAUNCHING
NOKIA DRIVE

13. REFERENCES
developer.nokia.com
developer.here.com
dev.windowsphone.com
VAUGHAN KNIGHT