VEMap.GetTileLayerByIndex Method

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Gets a tile layer based upon an index value.

VEMap.GetTileLayerByIndex(index);

Parameters

Parameter Description

index

The index into the list of tile layers. The value ranges from 0 to GetTileLayerCount.

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></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,
                1.0,
                100);                              

            map.AddTileLayer(tileSourceSpec, true);
         }  
         
         function ListTileLayers()
         {
           var numLayers = map.GetTileLayerCount();

           if(numLayers < 1)
           {
             setDivText("tilelayers", "There are no tile layers to list!");
             return;
           }

           var layers = "There are " + numLayers + " tile layers:<br/>";

           for(var i = 0; i < numLayers; i++)
           {
             layers += "&nbsp;&nbsp;" + map.GetTileLayerByIndex(i).ID + "<br/>";
           }

           setDivText("tilelayers", layers);
         }
         
         function DeleteTileLayer()
         {
           var zindex = 0;
           
           var numLayers = map.GetTileLayerCount();

           if(numLayers < 1)
           {
             setDivText("tilelayers", "There are no tile layers to delete!");
             return;
           }

           var theLayerId;

           for(var i = 0; i < numLayers; i++)
           {
             if(map.GetTileLayerByIndex(i).ZIndex > zindex)
             {
               zindex = map.GetTileLayerByIndex(i).ZIndex;
               theLayerId = map.GetTileLayerByIndex(i).ID;
             }
           }
           
           map.DeleteTileLayer(theLayerId);

           setDivText("tilelayers", "Deleted layer " + theLayerId);
         }


        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 id="btnshow" type="button" onclick="ListTileLayers()" value="List Tile Layers"/>
      <input id="btndelete" type="button" onclick="DeleteTileLayer()" value="Delete Top Tile Layer"/>
      <div id='tilelayers'></div>
   </body>
</html>

See Also

Reference

VEMap.GetTileLayerByID Method
VEMap.GetTileLayerCount Method