Time for Action – creating a Bing/Virtual Earth Layer
Include a reference to the Microsoft Mapping API in your
<head>section, before the OpenLayers inclusion script:<script src="http://ecn.dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=6.2&mkt=en-us"></script>
Let's set up some layer objects now. We specify the
typeproperty like in the previous examples. For this layer, the type is prefixed byVEMapStyle., which stands for 'Virtual Earth Map Style'. Let's create a 'shaded' layer, which in this case is the street/road layer with shaded elevation:var ve_shaded = new OpenLayers.Layer.VirtualEarth( "Shaded", {type: VEMapStyle.Shaded} );We'll add an aerial (satellite imagery) layer now:
var ve_aerial = new OpenLayers.Layer.VirtualEarth( "Aerial", {type: VEMapStyle.Aerial} );Now, let's create a default layer. If we don't pass in a
type, theVEMapStyle.Roadlayer will be used. It is similar to the shaded layer, but without the shading. We'll also use another property...
