[OpenLayers-Users] OL and VirtualEarth commercial

[Erik Uzureau]

Thanks Till. Please do let us know if you make the changes, because
we would like to have those updated in the OpenLayers core for sure. :-)

Erik

On 1/21/08, Till Adams <adams at terrestris.de> wrote:
> Christopher Schmidt schrieb:
>
> >On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 03:19:01PM +0100, Till Adams wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Christopher Schmidt schrieb:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:50:54AM +0100, Till Adams wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>dear list,
> >>>>
> >>>>we build an application, where the background-maps for our OL client are served by MS VE (this was not my decision ;-)).
> >>>>
> >>>>Now we have a commercial access (username/password) to MS VirtaulEarth - has anyone integrated commercial VE access in OL yet? Is there sth. like that key for google where I have to send username/password?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>No clue. If you find VirtualEarth documentation for how to connect, then
> >>>share a link to that, someone might be able to advise how to implement
> >>>it in OpenLayers. I'm not aware of any comercial VE usage inside OL at
> >>>this time.
> >>>
> >>>Regards,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Chris, List,
> >>
> >>thanks for your reply. Our reseller found out, the access is nearly the
> >>same, they pointed us to
> >>this:
> >>
> >>http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=6&mkt=somekey
> >>
> >>
> >>Which is exactly the same, the in OL included "mapcontrol.js" does. As
> >>long as I use "URL?v=3" or "URL?v=4" which
> >>means older versions of VE, OL works. When I try v=5 or v=6 I get an
> >>error pointing to "Msn.VE.Pixel".
> >>I guess they result from a changing in the objectmodel of MS VE.
> >>
> >>Does anyone ever used the newer versions of VE OR has anybody a clue
> >>about how much adapting is needed,
> >>to re-write the VE-access for OL to newer versions of MS VE?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Some people have looked into it. I'm not one of them, and I don't
> >remember hearing any specific information back on what the resolution
> >was. I doubt that there would be much in the way of changes: the VE
> >Layer is most likely easily adapted, and the change is likely just a
> >change in names, not in functionality, but I'm not sure.
> >
> >The code to look at is OpenLayers.Layer.VirtualEarth.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >
> Chris,
>
> thanx, indeed, it doesn't look like too much stuff.
> We'll see - if we adapt it, I 'll report and track back.
>
> Till
>
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