[talk-au] ESRI online tool has OSM basemap

[Grant Slater]

On 26 May 2010 12:05, Chris Barham <cbarham at pobox.com> wrote:

> This seems interesting, ESRI have launched ArcGIS.com
> http://www.arcgis.com/home/
> which has an online mapping toolset (Microsoft Silverlight plugin required)
> that allows you to use OpenStreetMap basemaps -  I thought this was
> interesting as it is from a company that until the OSM Haiti remote mapping
> success hit the news, was perceived (by me), to have  refused to acknowledge
> OpenStreetMap even existed :-)
>
> Cool - I do wonder if they are serving the tiles, or useing OSM
> bandwidth....
>


They are using OSM bandwidth via tile.openstreetmap.org

/ Grant
Part of OSM Sysadmin team.
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