The Bing Maps Imagery service is commonly used for mobile applications. A common issue people have when using the Bing map imagery web services is figure out how to take a map and navigate around it by panning and zooming. Zooming is pretty straight forward as all the user has to do is increase or decrease the zoom level that was used to initially retrieve the map image. Panning on the other hand is much more complicated. Generally when panning you want to move a certain pixel distance from where the user is currently viewing. To calculate the coordinate of a new location knowing our current location, direction (heading) and a distance to travel we can use the method described in this post: http://rbrundritt.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E7DBA9A4BFD458C5!400.entry 

The distance you will want to pan will depend on the size of your map. Generally you will pick a distance in pixels. To use this pixel distance we will have to convert into a physical distance on the earth. To do this we can calculate the resolution of the ground in pixels for a particular zoom level. To calculate the resolution at a particular zoom level and latitude we can use the following formula.

This formula came from the following article on the Bing Maps tiling system: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb259689.aspx 

The final piece of information that is needed is the direction (heading). Headings generally are an angle in degrees from 0 to 360 with 0 being North, 90 degrees being East, 180 degrees being south and west being 270 degrees. If you want to pan your map North East you will set your heading to 45 degrees.

I’ve thrown together a simple application that pulls all this together. Complete source code can be found here: http://cid-e7dba9a4bfd458c5.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/VE%20Sample%20code/BingMapsPanZoom.zip