Igor, First I need to check with our former mentors as to whether we need any sort of vote as to whether to accept this donation.
Then, we should work with the Modest Map folks by having them sign up for this mailing list. -Alex On 3/20/13 7:25 PM, "Igor Costa" <igorco...@gmail.com> wrote: > Great news > > Guys at modest map engine agreed to donate to Apache Flex project. > > Alex, can you help me with that? > > > > ---------------------------- > Igor Costa > www.igorcosta.com > www.igorcosta.org > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Paul Hastings > <paul.hasti...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On 3/21/2013 4:02 AM, Igor Costa wrote: >> >> - Microsoft Bing Maps >>> >> >> "free" version (requires key) has 125k transaction limit per year (1 >> transaction = 8 tiles--depending on the scale about 1 screen's worth). >> that's not a lot of views. on the bright side, ms's accounting is messy & >> confusing, even to themselves--i know folks who's applications blow thru >> that limit on a weekly basis. but ms has promised to clean up their act by >> sept 30th. >> >> - Yahoo Maps >>> >> >> getting shut down. >> >> >> its technically easy to scrape map tiles from any provider but legally not >> feasible. if i recall correctly, modest map used to scrape google tiles at >> one time until google forced them to stop. in terms of spatial data >> coverage & quality (which are all that really count), losing google from >> the flash/flex community was a massive blow. >> >> you missed ESRI which doesn't have as much public spatial data as google >> but is way more sporting w/what it does have than ms--ESRI gives you 50 >> million transaction per year (defined the same way as ms). >> >> http://services.arcgisonline.**com/ArcGIS/rest/services<http://services.arcgi >> sonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services> >> >> plus ESRI is old school GIS, so you get "free" access to quite a few >> analytical tools. for instance: >> >> http://bit.ly/11hQpE2 >> >> ESRI has a pretty decent flex API: >> >> http://resources.arcgis.com/**en/communities/flex-api/<http://resources.arcgi >> s.com/en/communities/flex-api/> >> -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
