[josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

[Ian Dees]

As of about an hour ago JOSM's slippymap plugin supports Bing aerial maps. I
haven't publicized it yet because the official (technical) announcement
 hasn't come out yet specifying what the URL requests should look like or if
we have to include attribution. That being said, the slippymap plugin at
r24352 includes support.

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Tobias Wendorff <
tobias.wendorff at tu-dortmund.de> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Steve is working for Microsoft Bing and accieved the access of their
> aerial imagery for OpenStreetMap:
>
> http://blog.stevecoast.com/im-working-at-microsoft-and-were-donating-ima
>
> Now it's up to "us" to make the WMS-/Yahoo-plugin read Bing-tiles :-)
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb259689.aspx
>
> I think, adding support for OpenLayers would make everything easier,
> but it would also allow to steal data from Google Maps...
>
> Best regards,
> Tobias
>
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