[josm-dev] Bing imagery

[Sebastian Klein]

Ian Dees wrote:
> Thanks to RichardF's help, the slippymap plugin is extremely close to
> supporting Bing coverage along with the license requirements outlined below.
> 
> I've checked in everything (mostly on the slippymap plugin and jmapviewer
> code), but since I don't have a josm.osm.de SVN account I can't update the
> implementation of the tile source interface in SlippyMapBBoxChooser.java.
> 
> If someone could apply that patch (diff attached), we should have a
> slippymap plugin and JOSM code that should be usable with Bing imagery.

Done (in http://josm.openstreetmap.de/changeset/3687/josm).

Please try to keep jmapviewer "backwards compatible" (if possible), 
otherwise its a paint to check out old revisions of JOSM.


Sebastian

> 
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>wrote:
> 
>> Hello all,
>>
>> == JOSM users: please read ==
>>
>> Your developers are great people and I'm sure they will be making the
>> imagery live when they humanly get a moment, no doubt within the next day or
>> so. Please have faith in them and stop bugging them. And me.
>>
>> == JOSM developers: please read ==
>>
>> Bing imagery is now live in Potlatch 2. Just because I've been asked about
>> this five times already in the last 10 minutes by eager JOSM developers,
>> here's some basics for you. Bear in mind that I don't have any official role
>> with anyone except as P2 pointman, which simply means people have told me
>> stuff.
>>
>> You are allowed to display Bing tiles for tracing _BUT_
>>
>> a) You must display a Bing logo, hyperlinked to Bing maps
>> b) You must display the credits for the imagery providers relevant to the
>> current viewport
>> c) You must display a link to the terms of use
>>
>> The difficult bit is b), and you may find out the imagery providers by one
>> of two ways:
>>
>> i) Look at the headers served with the tile; match them up against a list
>> of copyright strings provided by Bing. (I can't give you that list. Maybe
>> Bing can.)
>>
>> ii) Use the Bing API provided for that purpose. I call
>> http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Imagery/Metadata/Aerial/0,0?zl=1&mapVersion=v1&key=[potlatch's_bing_maps_key]&include=ImageryProviders&output=xmland that gives me everything. You can get a Bing maps key from
>> www.bingmapsportal.com. I'd suggest you get one for JOSM.
>>
>> Feel free to use Potlatch 2 as a reference implementation for this. Most of
>> the code is in
>> http://trac.openstreetmap.org/changeset/24461/applications/editors/potlatch2(and a few little layout tweaks subsequently).
>>
>> The Bing ToUs are a little awkwardly written in places. I'm going to be
>> talking to their lawyer guy but two things you might query:
>>
>> - "online editor" does not exclude JOSM. I've had this confirmed by a guy
>> at Microsoft, they're using it in the sense of "edits an online resource"
>> rather than "an app hosted only on a website"
>> - "non-commercial editor" means, AIUI (haven't confirmed this), they don't
>> want it in saleable products like the ArcGIS extension. This might mean that
>> your Bing config string has to sit in a non-GPLed file. Alternatively you
>> could read "non-commercial editor" as "source code must always be available
>> for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source
>> distribution", i.e. it's ok as long as you're not _only_ selling it (this
>> would accord with a definition elsewhere in the ToU). I honestly don't know.
>> I'll see if I can get this clarified.
>>
>> I believe Ian Dees is working on all of this so you shouldn't actually have
>> to bother with anything yourself. But JOSM people keep asking me about it,
>> so, well, here you go.
>>
>> cheers
>> Richard
>>
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