[OpenLayers-Users] Microsoft MapPoint Web Service?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Jeff Dege wrote:
> Can OpenLayers display layers with data from Microsoft's MapPoint Web
> Service?
> 
> If it were WMS, I'd know the answer.  But it's not clear from a quick
> glance at MS's website whether their map web service is WMS or not.

MapPoint is a SOAP service. You would probably need to create a proxy on 
your server the translates the OL requests into MapPoint SOAP calls to 
fetch images, that then get passed back to OL. Yeah, that sounds really 
messy.

-Steve