[josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 26 November 2010 09:16, Dirk Stöcker <openstreetmap at dstoecker.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>
>>>> Well, Slippy Map supports tiles, wmsplugin doesn't.
>>>
>>> You can pass to slippymap an URL of a html file that fetches anythign
>>
>> Sorry, I wanted to say wmsplugin, not slippymap plugin.
>
> I once tried, but did not get VisualEarth working.

Is VisualEarth same as the "Bird's eye" option in maps.bing.com?  I
have the bing tiles working using OpenLayers with the following url:
html:http://openstreetmap.pl/balrog/bing/?

(http://openstreetmap.pl/balrog/bing/?bbox=7,50.50,8,50.99&srs=EPSG:4326&width=500&height=500)

I have not tried Microsoft's own API, if they have one.

> Here is the relevant code for Yahoo using Openlayers:
> http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wmsplugin/YahooSat.html?bbox=7,50.50,8,50.99&srs=EPSG:4326&width=500&height=500
> (I did not get the scale-bar removed here)

Cheers