Only one single map service today for Tileproxy?

[Slowhand 1]

After checking the map services for Tiliproxy only one works! And that is MS Bing Virtual Earth. 

 

Webatlas for Norway gives now a 404 error (not found).

Yahoo gives a 503 error (Unavailable).

 

Thus only one single possibility left..., allthough I hope I'm wrong.

 

 

[ozric 0]

Hi Slowhand,

 

Yes, that was my conclusion also. There is one other possibility that works - the one we're not supposed to use.....

 

Funnily enough, I encountered the stuttering problem you mentioned in your last post. I've been DX10 enabled for a long time & I thought I'd go back to DX9 for a bit. As soon as I did I got stuttering. Your FSX Fiber Accelerator fix worked a treat, but I thought that this stuttering shouldn't be happening in the first place. The only way it would run smooth was frame rate 'unlimited', but that's no good for Tile Proxy. Anyway, I fixed it with [bufferPools] UsePools=0. There are other configuations of pool sizes & reject thresholds that might work also. See:

 

www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?44197-RejectThreshold-Tweak-Replacement-for-No-BufferPool

 

and

 

http://airdailyx.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/fsxcfg-tweak-review-bufferpools.html

 

p.s. is there only you & me on this forum?!!

 

Regards,

 

Ian

[JohnG3 1]

After checking the map services for Tiliproxy only one works! And that is MS Bing Virtual Earth. 

 

Webatlas for Norway gives now a 404 error (not found).

Yahoo gives a 503 error (Unavailable).

 

Thus only one single possibility left..., allthough I hope I'm wrong.

Hi you two, I guess there are three of us...

Unfortunately, you are right.  We only have one service - MS Bing/virtualEarth.  That is the bad news.  The good news is that virtualEarth has a very good level of detail/resolution in many places on earth - especially well populated areas in USA, Canada, Europe and elsewhere.  If you want to check out the level of detail for a specific area of the world before an FSX/TP flight, I recommend using Flash Earth with "Bing Maps (Labels)" selected as the Map Source.  Here is the link:

http://www.flashearth.com/

 

Yahoo Map services were shut down early in 2015.  Here is the shutdown notice:

https://developer.yahoo.com/maps/

Unfortunately there is a high monthly price to use one of the required Map Tile API's.  Here is the pricing structure:

https://developer.here.com/plans/api/consumer-mapping

 

Similarly, the Norwegian map service has also gone to an API purchase data plan and is no longer available free. Here is the Webatlas info translated into English:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.webatlas.no%2Fwordpress_WA%2F&edit-text=&act=url

 

Enjoy VirtualEarth while we still have it,

John G.

[meandme 1]

FYI I'm trying to keep this page updated with the latest status: http://aviation.allanville.com/tileproxy/

[Slowhand 1]

Allan, I'm checking your site regularly. Its much appreciated.

Thanks for that.