I recommend looking into MapBox for basemaps. They have some beautiful street maps based on OpenStreetMap data, and they have recently rolled out really nice aerial imagery from Digital Globe. The scope of their aerial imagery doesn't match Google, but for US and Europe it's incredibly good. They are also adding new coverage pretty quickly, as well as some really cool stuff around near real-time imagery if you need it.
MapBox basemap tiles can be used in any mapping component, unlike Google which requires you to use only their JS library (they have deprecated their Flash library and you are forbidden from using their tiles in a non-Google map component). Pricing is also incredibly sane, and the terms allow commercial use (again, not something Google plays nice with). For SpatialKey (a large Flex mapping app) we are using the as3 version of ModestMaps with MapBox basemaps, and it's a really good solution. On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Paul Hastings <[email protected]>wrote: > On 8/15/2013 11:26 PM, Tomislav Pokrajcic wrote: > >> Checkout http://openscales.org >> It's an opensource AS3 mapping API and we used it for some projects. >> Not sure if it's still alive, the last release is dated 07/2012. >> > > while that might replace some of the google API it does nothing for > spatial data. google maps are irreplaceable as far as their data/coverage > goes. > >
