Bing Maps: Suppressing the Bird’s Eye Popup
When I was working on my last Bing Maps project for Webworld Technologies, my Microsoft rep told me, “…and as soon as you’re ready, let me know and I’ll give you a hack to disable that f’n birds-eye popup”. I didn’t know that was the official inside term for it, but like so many internal naming conventions that stick with you, I felt it was appropriately named. I think the Bing bird’s eye view is a fantastic way to visualize maps too, but the little “VIEW THIS IN THE COOL BIRDS EYE VIEW” popup that comes up every time you refresh the map is a bit far into the “annoying UI element” department.
To disable it, just do the following: right after invoke your map.LoadMap, hide the popup element as follows:
map.LoadMap(new VELatLong(38.865326, -77.074930), 12 ,’h’ ,false);
// Suppress popup saying Bird’s Eye available
document.getElementById("MSVE_obliqueNotification").style.visibility = "hidden";
That will get rid of that popup any time the map loads.
