[Foss4g2009] Anyone using Microsoft's bing maps at FOSS4G?

[Cameron Shorter]

Yes Tim (and Chris from a separate email), that is exactly the sort of 
message that should help get Microsoft on board.

"Our FOSS4G audience source their maps from numerous sources and most of 
the audience are agnostic about where the maps come from. They use the 
maps which are best for the money they have available to them. 
(Traditionally, Google Maps have usually been used for base layers here 
in Australia due to their coverage).
Further, one of the flagship open source projects, Openlayers, was 
specifically set up to allow users to integrate map layers from as many 
sources as possible, which includes Bing Maps, Google Maps, WMS, WFS, 
KML, GML, among many others.  And for Gold Sponsorship, the presenters 
for some of our most popular workshops and presentations have offered to 
use Bing Maps as their base maps for their workshops  and presentations."

Volker, Harley,
I don't see a need to send out another email to all the presenters. I 
think the above would be sufficient. (I hadn't read this email before 
sending my last response).


Tim Schaub wrote:
> Hey-
>
> I wasn't subscribed at the time, but saw the message about Bing at 
> FOSS4G.
>
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/foss4g2009/2009-July/001226.html
>
> Not sure if it will help make the case for sponsorship, but I'd be 
> happy to use Bing tiles in the OpenLayers workshop (where we use 
> layers from non-OGC-standards providers).
>
> This simple example is just a rebranding of the old Virtual Earth one:
> http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/bing.html
>
> For the workshop, we could show some more useful stuff.
>
> Tim
>


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