On 3/21/2013 4:02 AM, Igor Costa wrote:
- Microsoft Bing Maps
"free" version (requires key) has 125k transaction limit per year (1 transaction
= 8 tiles--depending on the scale about 1 screen's worth). that's not a lot of
views. on the bright side, ms's accounting is messy & confusing, even to
themselves--i know folks who's applications blow thru that limit on a weekly
basis. but ms has promised to clean up their act by sept 30th.
- Yahoo Maps
getting shut down.
its technically easy to scrape map tiles from any provider but legally not
feasible. if i recall correctly, modest map used to scrape google tiles at one
time until google forced them to stop. in terms of spatial data coverage &
quality (which are all that really count), losing google from the flash/flex
community was a massive blow.
you missed ESRI which doesn't have as much public spatial data as google but is
way more sporting w/what it does have than ms--ESRI gives you 50 million
transaction per year (defined the same way as ms).
http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services
plus ESRI is old school GIS, so you get "free" access to quite a few analytical
tools. for instance:
http://bit.ly/11hQpE2
ESRI has a pretty decent flex API:
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/communities/flex-api/
