VS2010 crashes when the map is used within RadTabItem
After the BingMapProvider is added to the radMap the VS2010 crashes and has to be restarted.

The encoding of DBF-file is determined automatically by MapShapeReader. When the file has the unicode fields then the reader does not convert unicode characters (å,ä,ö) properly to the extended data. Currently the MapShapeReader does not contain property to assign the certain encoding for DBF-file.
The MapShapeReader should support to assign the certain encoding for DBF-file including UTF-8.

When a user clicks the center button on the separate navigation control (the standard buttons are collapsed) then a line appears at the center-bottom position.

Reason for closing/ declining:

The separate MapNavigationControl is designed to be used outside RadMap.

The bug is only reproducible when the control is placed in the ItemsCollection of the RadMap which is not supported. 

The RadMap control should support displaying copyright info about currently used map provider.

The RadMap control does not support the mouse wheel zoom when it is used inside a ChildWindow.

The map control should have the ability to disable the spring animation separately for panning without disabling zoom animation.

This feature is implemented already for the WPF version of the RadMap control (you can use SpringAnimationsMode property). It seems quite difficult to implement the same for the Silverlight version. The difference between WPF and Silverlight is the MultiScaleImage control. In the WPF we use our own implementation of the MultiScaleImage , so we have a full control on its behavior. In the Silverlight we use standard control which does not provide similar functionality.

The MapPolyline should support the driving direction feature. It should be able to displaying arrows.

Add support for map grid (i.e. grid-lines).