VEMap.GetTileLayerByID Method

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Gets a tile layer based upon its identifier.

VEMap.GetTileLayerByID(id);

Parameters

Parameter Description

id

The unique identifier of the tile layer

Return Value

A VETileSourceSpecification Class object.

Example

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
   <head>
      <title>ShowHideBaseTileLayer</title>
      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

      <script type="text/javascript" src="https://ecn.dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=6.3"></script>

      <script type="text/javascript">
         
         var map = null;
         
         function GetMap()
         {
            map = new VEMap('myMap');
            map.LoadMap(new VELatLong(48.03,-122.4),12,'r' ,false);

            GetTiles();
         }   
         
         function GetTiles()
         {
            var bounds = [new VELatLongRectangle(new VELatLong(49,-123),new VELatLong(47,-121))];
            
            var tileSourceSpec = 
              new VETileSourceSpecification(
                "lidar", 
                "https://www.microsoft.com/maps/isdk/ajax/layers/lidar/%4.png",
                1,
                bounds,
                10,
                18,
                null,
                0.5,
                100);                              

            map.AddTileLayer(tileSourceSpec, true);
         }  
         
         function GetTileLayerInfo()
         {

           var tileLayer = map.GetTileLayerByID("lidar");


           var layerinfo = "The tile layer " + map.GetTileLayerByIndex(0).ID + " has an opacity setting of " + tileLayer.Opacity + ".<br/>";


           setDivText("layerinfo", layerinfo);
         }
                 

        function setDivText(dId, s)
        {
          var d = document.getElementById(dId);
          d.innerHTML = s;
        }

      </script>
   </head>
   <body onload="GetMap();">
      <div id='myMap' style="position:relative; width:600px; height:400px;"></div>
      <input type="button" value="Get Tile Layer Info" onclick="GetTileLayerInfo();"/><br>
      <div id='layerinfo'></div>
   </body>
</html>

See Also

Reference

VEMap.GetTileLayerByIndex Method
VEMap.GetTileLayerCount Method