Craig, The licensing for Bing Maps is actually very good and flexible here in Australia. If you're building a user authenticated system then you can license per user, an assets tracking system license per asset.
The Bing Maps tiles are now hosted here in Australia, I'm getting road tiles in 60ms. For large system I'd hope the Bing Maps licensing would be attractive compared with hosting your own OSM tiles with any performance. The final answer to your question may be answered by the fact the control is owned by the Bing Maps team, funded by the larger projects paying for the control, not the Silverlight team. John. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Craig Dunn Sent: Wednesday, 11 November 2009 9:02 AM To: ozSilverlight Subject: Re: New release of the Silverlight Bing Maps control So my question becomes: what are MS licensing expectations for * large (>125,000 pa sessions) using OSM data * password-protected/intranet/internal applications using OSM data I understand the work they have put into the control - but given its support for custom tile layers the licensing seems a bit unclear in that case? Is there any concept of using/licensing the control seperately from the Bing Maps "product"? cd On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:43 AM, David Burela <[email protected]> wrote: Well according to their site, a lot of use is free. If you are using it for free public facing website you are fine, otherwise start talking to their sales team * Free licensing programs for non-profits and educators. . As part of our commitment to the community, use is now free for public-facing, non-password protected sites with the new terms of use for educators and non-profits.* * Free licensing for small Web sites. It's now even easier to get started with Bing Maps-use is now free for public-facing, non-password protected Web sites with up to 125,000 user sessions per year.* * Trial offer for all users. Take advantage of the full set of imagery and services with the free 90-day trial offer for all users for commercial evaluations, partner prototyping, and more.* * Simple, embedded maps. Use new straightforward ways of embedding AJAX or Silverlight maps for free on your Web site.* David Burela Readify | Senior Developer Suite 206 Nolan Tower | 29 Rakaia Way | Docklands | VIC 3008 | Australia M: +61 (0)407 363 860 | E: [email protected]| W: <http://www.readify.net/> www.readify.net _____ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Craig Dunn [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 11 November 2009 9:41 AM To: ozSilverlight Subject: Re: New release of the Silverlight Bing Maps control Yeah - that's fine if you are using Bing Maps data... but are they now implying that if you use the silverlight _control_ as a host for OSM map tiles (for example) you still need a key? How do 'session counts' etc apply if you are using the SL control with open source data? Does MS expect 'payment' for these uses of the control? Curious... cd On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:31 AM, David Burela <[email protected]> wrote: although one thing that IS annoying, is that it looks like you now need a bing maps "key" in order to use the control... David Burela Readify | Senior Developer Suite 206 Nolan Tower | 29 Rakaia Way | Docklands | VIC 3008 | Australia M: +61 (0)407 363 860 | E: [email protected]| W: <http://www.readify.net/> www.readify.net _____ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Burela [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 11 November 2009 9:30 AM To: ozSilverlight Subject: New release of the Silverlight Bing Maps control For anyone who hasn't seen the announcement yet today, they have released a new version of the silverlight bing maps control http://www.microsoft.com/maps/ Changes to the SDK can be seen here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee681889.aspx the interesting one for me, is the inclusion of the "MapItemsControl" class, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.maps.mapcontrol.mapitemsco ntrol.aspx It allows for databinding to a map layer now, meaning I can get rid of the custom stuff on my blog :-) David Burela Readify | Senior Developer Suite 206 Nolan Tower | 29 Rakaia Way | Docklands | VIC 3008 | Australia M: +61 (0)407 363 860 | E: [email protected]| W: <http://www.readify.net/> www.readify.net _______________________________________________ ozsilverlight mailing list [email protected] http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight _______________________________________________ ozsilverlight mailing list [email protected] http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
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