[Qgis-developer] Openlayers plugin and Virtual Earth (i.e.Bing Maps)

Pirmin Kalberer pi_ml at sourcepole.com
Fri Dec 3 03:41:58 EST 2010


Am Freitag, 3. Dezember 2010, um 04.35:27 schrieb Noli Sicad:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to add Virtual Earth (Bing Maps) to QGIS Openlayers plugin
> and I have trouble on the projection of Bing Maps (i.e. alignment). My
> shapefile layer (i.e.traces from the Google Maps) and other shapefile
> layers are off when I overlayed the Bing map (Bing Hybrid).
> 
> Bing is far better Satellite imagery compare to Yahoo and Google. OSM
> is using Bing for traces lately as result of Steve Coast (OSM founder)
> working with Bing.
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Selecting_Bing_in_JOSM.png
> 
> I know that Bing uses different projection,
> http://www.cadmaps.com/gisblog/?p=80
> 
> 
> displayProjection: new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:4326"),
> 
> Inserting this code above does not help at all.
> 
> Here the entire code.
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Your code snippet shows the Google layer, not a Bing layer.

Pirmin

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