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]<mailto:[email protected]>| W: www.readify.net<http://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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]>| W: www.readify.net<http://www.readify.net/> ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of David Burela [[email protected]<mailto:[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.mapitemscontrol.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]<mailto:[email protected]>| W: www.readify.net<http://www.readify.net/> _______________________________________________ ozsilverlight mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
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