Great news Guys at modest map engine agreed to donate to Apache Flex project.
Alex, can you help me with that? ---------------------------- Igor Costa www.igorcosta.com www.igorcosta.org On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Paul Hastings <paul.hasti...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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<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/<http://resources.arcgis.com/en/communities/flex-api/> >
