[josm-dev] Microsoft gains access to aerial imagery

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, andrzej zaborowski wrote:

> 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.

I copied it to
http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wmsplugin/VirtualEarthDirect.html

We need to wait if this access method is allowed before making it public.

Adding Tile support to WMS-Plugin should be done nevertheless :-) As 
the WMS usage is tiled anyway it is mainly a task of proper data handling.

Ciao
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