Center a Bing map using databinding - windows-8

Question

I have a ScrollViewer with a ControlTemplate that contains a Bing map, see snippet below. The Pushpin is correctly positioned so the Latitude and Longitude properties have correct values, but the map is always centered below Africa which I think it is the 0,0 position...
<bing:Map
x:Name="Karta"
Grid.Row="5"
Grid.ColumnSpan="2"
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
Width="500"
Height="500"
ZoomLevel="5"
Credentials="--removed--">
<bing:Map.Center>
<bing:Location Latitude="{Binding Latitud}" Longitude="{Binding Longitud}" />
</bing:Map.Center>
<bing:Map.Children>
<bing:Pushpin x:Name="LokalPin" >
<bing:MapLayer.Position>
<bing:Location Latitude="{Binding Latitud}" Longitude="{Binding Longitud}" />
</bing:MapLayer.Position>
</bing:Pushpin>
</bing:Map.Children>
</bing:Map>
Previously I did this using code (see below) but I would like to bind it instead. And I don't think I used <bing:Map Center> then but if I remove it from the above there is no difference.
MapLayer.SetPosition(LokalPin, loc);
Karta.SetView(loc, 12.0);

Answer 1

Months too late, but maybe someone else could use this...I'm under the assumption that we want the map to update base on a backing field (Not databinding in the xaml, but a work around), and trying to centre the map using the value of the backing field...
what I do, since the databinding of a map doesn't work (happy to be corrected here)...
I set the viewmodel.propertychanged event after the intializecomponent() in the code behind file of the page containing the map.
when the viewmodel updates the coordinate properties that you want to use as the center of the map, the changed event is raised and I center the map by reading the new coordinates from the viewmodel eg:
void CurrentViewModel_PropertyChanged(object sender, System.ComponentModel.PropertyChangedEventArgs e)
{
try
{
if (e.PropertyName != "latitude") return;
//Karta is the name of the map
//assuming the properties are in double format, if not then just cast a double
//do something like this:
var latitude = ViewModel.latitude;
var longitude =ViewModel.longitude;
Karta.Center = new Location(latitude,longitude);
}
Catch(Exception exception)
{Debug.WriteLine(exception.Message);}
}
This is all based on assumption that your page has reference or uses a viewmodel and that the properties have a some notify property changed attached to them... If I'm off on the wrong tangent... feel free to just skip this answer...lol! Databinding the map center is a breeze using viewmodels and the viewmodel.propertychanged event in the code behind. Too easy once you have it done..

Answer 2

To set a map's view in C#, use
Karta.SetView(loc, zoomLevel);
where loc is a Location object on which you want to set the centre, and zoomLevel is an integer zoom level.
You can do it in XAML as well, but it seems you mis-spelled "Latitude" (Latitud) and "Longitude" (Longitud)
See here for documentation.