disable bird's eye

create your own control and don't give the user a birdseye option. The control is easy enough to hide:

map.HideDashboard();

Adding a new control just requires you creating the control and adding it to the map:

var el = document.createElement("div");
el.style.top ="10px";
el.style.left = "10px";
el.style.border = "2px solid black";
el.style.background = "White";
el.innerHTML = "new nav control context";
map.AddControl(el);

Then, you just need to set the innerHTML to reference the approriate VE API methods. For instance, if you just want to let the user go between Road and Aerial, you could go:

el.innerHTML = "<a href=\map.SetMapStyle(VEMapStyle.Road)\">Road</a> | <a href=\map.SetMapStyle(VEMapStyle.Hybrid)\">Hybrid</a>";

Check out the SDK (http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/sdk) for more information on how to work with map styles, zooming, and panning.

TylerDavey at 2007-8-30 >