On my weblog you need to enter the name of the city you live in when you add a comment. I started this to prevent spammers overloading my weblog comments. Works pretty well and as there were getting more and more comments, I thought it would be nice to plot them all on a map, to see where everybody is from. The screenshot below shows that output.
My Silverlight application looks like this. Now I know where you all are :-):
I created it by importing the comments into a SharePoint 2010 list. I created a Silverlight 3 application using the new Bing Maps Silverlight control. To get the data from SharePoint, I am using the Silverlight client object model. Nice thing is that zoom works, and the map mode works, so I can zoom into any region.
After cleaning up the code, I will post how I have built this. I like the result so much, that I couldn’t stop myself from posting it :-).
