[OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

[Stephan Knauss]

On 13.06.2011 12:40, Borbus wrote:
> On 13/06/11 11:29, Stephan Knauss wrote:
>> This seams to be the reason. Bing should not silently fall back to other
>> data but nag you to install Silverlight.
>
> I'd rather it didn't because I'm not going to install Silverlight (in
> fact I couldn't even if I wanted to).  It would be a lot better if it
> was available in the normal javascript version.

As I have written "or even better provide the tiles using the plain JS 
API as well".

As long as MS wants to promote Silverlight using the OSM layer they 
should at least not silently fall back to another map. So either serve 
OSM with plain JS or tell the user it won't.
Even experienced users like Jochen had been tricked into believing the 
Bing data was OSM.


Stephan