[OpenLayers-Users] Is there a "LikeBing" layer out there?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Right! that is not the intent here. I have clients that are moving away 
from Bing but have apps that are built around this tile name scheme. 
They would like to create a cache using mapserver of tiles like this for 
their other apps. being about to browse the cache in OL makes it much 
easier to develop, review and build web apps all using the same cache.

The big issue I see with this is determining an appropriate directory 
structure that maximizes tile storage in dirs so you don't have 
excessive directory overhead and that you do not have too many files in 
a directory or run out of inodes.

-Steve

Andreas Hocevar wrote:
> Mind that using Bing tiles directly is a violation of the Bing Maps terms of use.
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> Regards,
> Andreas.
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> On Jul 13, 2010, at 15:33 , Mike Purvis wrote:
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>> Hey,
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>> If I want to serve the Bing tiles directly, without using the VirtualEarth wrapper layer, has that already been coded up by anyone? I know it's just a matter of extending Openlayers.Layer.XYZ and plugging in the correct geturl function. It's just that Bing's tile urls are based on some quadtree nonsense that makes it slightly more of a pain that just dropping in the coordinates.
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>> Nevermind about whether it's a good idea or not—has it already been done, or should I just do it myself?
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>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mike
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