On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
> Igor, > > First I need to check with our former mentors as to whether we need any > sort > of vote as to whether to accept this donation. > > Igor is a committer/PMC member. Why cant he just commit the code into the repo? Just curious to know why you think this needs a vote. Thanks, Om > Then, we should work with the Modest Map folks by having them sign up for > this mailing list. > > -Alex > > > On 3/20/13 7:25 PM, "Igor Costa" <igorco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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.arcgi > >> sonline.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.arcgi > >> s.com/en/communities/flex-api/> > >> > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > >
