Lots of interesting new stuff to explore in this 1.0 release of the Bing Maps Silverlight Control. That seems like a mouthful, and I’m sure it will be acronymed to something like BMS Control, but the one thing that immediately stands out from the announcement is this:
“Sessions will be used with the Bing Maps AJAX Map Control and the Bing Maps Silverlight Control. A session is basically defined as loading the map control and exploring at will, no tile limitations.”
- “Bing Maps AJAX Control all maps rendered onto the client upon the initial request is considered 1 session. Session includes any requests for geocoding, routing or search.”
- “Bing Maps Silverlight Control – all maps rendered onto the client upon the initial request is considered 1 session. There are no services built into the Bing Maps Silverlight Control, so you would use the Bing Maps Web Service for geocoding, routing and search, but will include those too.”
- “Bing Maps Web Service all maps, geocodes, routes and searches will each invoke 1 transaction.”
“With the new terms of use for the Bing Maps Platform you get 125,000 sessions per year for FREE. You also get 500,000 transactions a year for FREE. “
Educators – free unlimited use of the Bing Maps platform
Not-for-Profits – free unlimited use of the Bing Maps platform
Commercial, non-commercial and government – proof of concept development free
More details here:
Bing Maps terms of use changes benefit educators, not-for-profits, and developers
Bing Maps Silverlight Control 1.0 released
Terms of Use
This alleviates a big concern I had originally with use of the Silverlight Map Control CTP. Transaction based licensing did not align with Google pricing and was nearly impossible to predict for tile navigation, which is the engaging part of Silverlight Control. This announcement wipes out these problems and makes my job as a developer a whole lot easier.
Thanks Microsoft!
Какой очень хороший вопрос…
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