Why I Don’t Use Bing Maps – YouTube
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10 responses to “Why I Don’t Use Bing Maps – YouTube”
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How does http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.52608&lon=-0.08629&zoom=15&layers=M work for you?
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Somewhere inbetween; it doesn’t cache the tiles very much and fades them in on loading, but it fades them in at full resolution.
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Permit me to revise that:
Bing redraws *everything* on move, even visible tiles. It all goes blurry.
Google loads and caches tiles and always displays them at full resolution.
OSM keeps that which is on-screen fully rendered on a drag, and re/loads the missing tiles around that.-
Yep, if you drag Bing around, as soon as you load a new tile you will fuzz-and-redraw the entire visible pane, including all tiles which are fully rendered and on screen.
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Funny, I just tried it and I don’t see the re-write of the screen. I wonder if it is browser dependent? I am using Firefox.
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Chrome for me. Latest rev, on OSX.
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Works fine in IE8 on Windows 7. Surprise surprise.
The “nice” feature about bing is that you can switch to “ordnance survey” mode.
Or use “trekbuddy” (google it) : snoop your connection to extract the URLs for Bing’s tile data and write a few lines of pseudo code for Trekbuddy then you download OS maps in virtually any format for offline use.
I can recommend Galileo (not free) for iOS or Maverick for Android (free & paid versions).
Is that “legal”, I don’t know, I never signed a contract with Bing to say I wouldn’t download tiles and use them on an offline device. And if I’m just pulling tile data from http://ecn.dynamic.t0.tiles.virtualearth.net did I ever even see a page that mentioned a license agreement?? No. And the tiles come out without a copyright logo (unlike the Bing version which includes a copyright logo in the corner that doesn’t get rescaled when you move the window.)
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The same thing happens with Chrome on Windows. It doesn’t happen with IE or Firefox though so I’m thinking this is a Chrome only issue. I wonder if other webkit browsers like Safari have this issue?
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On my Mac (10.8) Bing’s re-rendering is pretty bad under Safari, but non-existent under Firefox.
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Opera 12 for me and it both bing and google only redraw the new tiles, all the currently displayed tiles move correctly without redrawing.
The reason I don’t use bing maps is that when you look at the satellite imagery, which is the only way I can show ppl where my house is, there is this big pink line all over the image. It is supposed to show you where the road is and the road number – but as it doesn’t follow the contours of the road it obliterates things you actually want to see… and it uses so much memory it slows my browser to a crawl – had to close the tab before I could post this, google has no such issues.
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