[OpenLayers-Users] OL and VirtualEarth commercial

[Christopher Schmidt]

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,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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