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This has been an annoying problem for a while, and hopefully will no longer be an issue.
3857 looks to be the current and correct code (I hope, that's what all my tile caches are in!).
Update 9/7/11 - as noted by Vadim below in comments, Esri did in fact revert back to 102100 from 3857 at Service Pack 1. Oddly, ArcGIS Server with SP1 applied returns a ...
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Imagery is expensive to capture and produce, which effectively limits its production to commercial entities and governments. Most of the commercial satellites don't carry consistent global coverage and generate income by selling access to scenes, including their resale to the providers you listed. That leaves government options in the free category: perhaps ...
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You can try this Bing imagery analyzer for OSM. It should show the bing satellite and aerial photos overlaid with their capture date. Is that what you're looking for?
Here is the direct link to the tool.
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The authoritative online source for information on EPSG codes is the EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry which is powered by the EPSG dataset but is often more current than the most recent version available for direct download.
According to this source, the EPSG::3785 projected CRS was initially created in response to Change Request EPSG::2008.016. This ...
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Yes,
Microsoft and esri will no longer provide the free service.
What's New for Arcgis Online March 2013 Register Bing Map key—Organizations who want to include Bing Maps
in their map viewer basemap gallery can add a Bing Map key to their
map configuration. This is related to the phasing out of
complimentary use of Bing Maps. For more ...
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Here's a very nice article by Alastair Aitchison describing the history of Web Mercator projection, together with all the EPSG code changes and reasons for them: The Google Maps / Bing Maps Spherical Mercator Projection. Highly recommended read.
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Looks like the answer is no. I'm saying this based on looking at their SDK docs and this thread: Looking for KML or GeoRSS Example in Bing Maps Ajax Control v7.
If KML support is crucial, you could use Esri's ArcGIS API for JavaScript as it has support for publicly accessible KML layers. Full disclosure: I work at Esri on the JavaScript API team.
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GeoServer can supply your Web Application Network KMZ - in real-time.
There is a very good 'Visualize Lidar in Google Earth' page here
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~isenburg/googleearth/
(Martin Isenburg & Jonathan Shewchuk)
key point is:
"we create the 10 by 8 tiling of 10 feet contours gilmer.kmz (c,d) in only 20 minutes using less than 100 MB of main ...
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add the parameters
&lvl=15&tlt=-90&alt=3224.73867795803&dir=0&cam=37.9607208577646~-87.3786394334287
&lvl=15 = zoom level
&tlt=-90 = tilt
&alt=3224' = altitude
&dir=0 = direction (0 is North)
&cam= camera position lat/lng
Full link (try it)
...
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The OpenAerialMap project was abandoned, but has recently been restarted. It will be an amalgamation of free datasets from different areas of the planet, with global datasets for areas with nothing more detailed. The global datasets used are i-cubed, and the NASA imagery. The current list of datasources used by the projects can be found here.
The source ...
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I don't know the ins-and-outs of the ArcGIS JS API but I can tell you that the MSNBC Hurricane Map uses Flash's ColorMatrixFilter and ColorTransform to invert and desaturate the Bing tiles on the fly.
I'm pretty sure that's not possible with JS in a cross-browser way. You might have some success if the Bing tiles are served with cross-domain (CORS) ...
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I'm not a lawyer. But i think it's okay. I've done it for years now on several implementations and this is the first time I've ever heard of this concern. As long as you have the "Powered by Google" when you're on the google layer and follow the rest of their terms such as not charging people to access that layer, then you're fine.
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Here are a few links.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Learn/Courses/WP7TrainingKit/WP7Silverlight/UsingBingMapsLab/Overview
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff955762.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee681883.aspx
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Inverting and Desaturating images is certainly possible in JS. Check out the Pixastic library.
And the specific code: Invert and Desaturate
The trick will be intercepting the Bing Map images in JS and applying the two effects to them. Certainly possible, but not easily accomplished. All the images you are interested in are in a div with id of ...
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Here's a JS API app that was shown at this year's Esri User Conference demoing similar functionality: http://na.arcgis.com/UCdemo/traffic.html
I'm not sure how or if it works in IE.
Basemap tiles are loaded from the ArcGIS Online Streets basemap and then converted to grayscale. This is also the app that uses Canvas referenced in slide 7 of the ...
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If you have a shift of a few metres, you should try using a nadgrid instead of the constant +towgs84 parameters as defined by EPSG:27700. The three-parameter transformation used only has a accuracy of 21m.
You can find the official grid data here:
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/gps/osnetfreeservices/furtherinfo/ostn02_ntv2.html
An alternative ...
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SOLUTION
I develop a python scritp based of the openscales plugin you can download in
https://github.com/joystor/BaseMap2Image
and you can call the scrit
./baseMap2Image.py bing_aerial -13704290 4440763 -9071872 567757 baseMap.jpeg 800 600
the coordinates are in EPSG:3857
I hope they serve
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Here is an interesting site from MIT that discusses copyright of figures and fair use policy. I would be inclined to accept their assertions given their status as a premier institution.
See the answer from @tmcw for a link to the Bing ToS. Reading that, I believe that you can utilize the map in a not-for-profit academic setting.
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Yes use geographical coordinates longitude and latitude for Google/Bing Maps.
When the world file is present, ArcGIS performs the image-to-world transformation. The image-to-world transformation is a six-parameter affine transformation in the form of
The transformation parameters are stored in the world file in this order:
20.17541308822119 (A)
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Here are some of my results for the following raster file:
JPEG 14456x14490 14456x14490+0+0 DirectClass 62mb
$ time gdal2tiles [...]
Generating Base Tiles:
0...10...20...30...40...50...60...70...80...90...100 - done.
Generating Overview Tiles:
0...10...20...30...40...50...60...70...80...90...100 - done.
real 5m7.675s
user 5m5.070s
sys 0m2.060s
...
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Another option is to use the recently released ArcGIS API for Windows Phone - currently in beta. In addition to Bing Maps support, the API has very robust capabilities for adding ArcGIS, OGC, OpenStreetMap, and client-side features (i.e. graphics) to the map.
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There have been a lot of discussions about offline support on the ESRI Forums, so I would suggest that you checkout the development on the betacommunity as for shape files there is a Contrib package for Silverlight that includes a Shapefile datasource might be possible to convert to WP7.
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You should look at the latest from ESRI.
Called "Change Matters" it is global landsat as a service.
It has been processed into epochs. with some more epochs coming soon I believe.
ESRI's news page is here
With two easy ways to access via a modifiable side by side viewer or as services from arcgisonline.
launch page
Access to all services on arcgisonline
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If you are prepared to pay there are a couple more options:
Digital Globe offer a wms service that could be linked with OpenLayers.
The ESRI Javascript API has global satellite data at varying resolution.
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Your first step is to convert the e00 file to something useful - see http://freegeographytools.com/2007/converting-e00-vector-data-to-shapefiles-a-free-and-fairly-painless-approach for details if you don't have access to ArcToolBox.
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Using Google Maps API v3 Directions you can achieve this road segment length using waypoints.
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/directions-waypoints.html
To work out line length
...
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As mentioned above, GeoRSS and KML are not supported. However, someone has written a GeoRSS interpreter for Bing Maps v7. And since KML files and GeoRSS files are both XML, so you can easily convert between the two using XSL. Some hunting shows that many people have talked about it, but I can't find any actual XSL file that does it. I did, however, find one ...
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You can refer Mapinfo specific steps from the links below:
Georeferencing (called Image Registration in MapInfo)
Digitization
Cheers!
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Bing Maps 7.0 does not include a KML converter. But because it uses JavaScript objects to display data on the map (see Bing API), you can manually parse the kml and convert it to the respective objects.
In this code example, I use JavaScript to convert KML polygon data to new Microsoft.Maps.Polygon objects. I would then use the code below to add the ...
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It's ok since you're not using the Google API to display Bing Tiles. You're using OpenLayers to switch between various map providers. Just don't remove the logo with CSS and you should be fine.
Note that your application has to be publicly accessible (or fit a few other categories to be free). Otherwise, if it's behind a login, you have to pony up for a ...
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