Re: Support for quadkeys

[Jiří Techet <techet gmail com>]

Hello Mathieu,

the question is - is this quadkeys location encoding usable for
something else than Bing and if not, is it legal to use Bing tiles
with libchamplain? I haven't searched much but found this

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/d379de41-3e41-479b-b904-c0a1441ba869/bing-map-tile-server-direct-access-through-xy-and-zoom-values-license-details-needed

which doesn't look very encouraging. Frankly if it's used only by Bing
and there are any licensing issues, I would be very hesitant to add
such a patch because people would be tempted to use it in a
not-quite-legal way. The last thing I want are some legal disputes
with Microsoft.

Jiri



On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Mat <mat parad0x org> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I would like to submit a small patch (attached) against the latest
> released version of libchamplain. I hope that this is the proper channel
> do to so.
>
> This patch adds support for tile servers such as Bing Maps that use the
> quadkeys location encoding in the tile URL instead of X,Y,Z coordinates.
>
> Details about the quadkeys encoding are available here:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb259689.aspx
>
> Would you guys be able to include this in the next release?
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Mathieu <mat parad0x org>
>
> _______________________________________________
> libchamplain-list mailing list
> libchamplain-list gnome org
> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/libchamplain-list